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Platform Security Engineer

Outset · San Francisco · Remote

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About Outset

Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Identify, assess, and help remediate security risks across our AWS infrastructure, Terraform code, application architecture, and product code. Partner with engineering teams to design secure systems and incorporate security into normal development and operational workflows. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience in application security, cloud security, infrastructure security, or security-focused site reliability engineering
  • Experience securing production systems in AWS, including familiarity with identity, networking, logging, data protection, and common cloud attack paths
  • Strong working knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code security practices
  • The ability to assess security across both infrastructure and application layers rather than treating them as separate environments
  • Experience reviewing application architecture or source code for security vulnerabilities and design weaknesses
  • Familiarity with common application, API, authentication, authorization, and data-security risks
More about this role

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.

The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.

Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.

We are looking for an experienced Platform Security Engineer to harden the security of the systems that power our business and products.

You will help us secure both our AWS infrastructure and our code base, partnering directly with engineering and other security teams to...

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