Lead Security and Infra Engineer (AI)

Location: Boston or Bay Area, with hybrid work preferred and two days per week in the office

Salary: $180,000–$240,000 in Boston or $190,000–$250,000 in San Francisco, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds AI agents that automate manual tasks across the insurance industry, expanding from voice automation into sales, servicing, claims, and broader insurance workflows.

What you will do

• Own production cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, networking, compute, storage, data services, environment isolation, and production access.
• Build Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, configuration standards, and secure self-service engineering paths.
• Improve reliability through observability, alerting, SLOs, capacity and cost management, backup and disaster recovery, and production-readiness standards.
• Lead security architecture for agent capabilities, tool execution, memory, integrations, multi-tenant services, and sensitive data flows.
• Build a secure SDLC covering code, dependency, container, and infrastructure-as-code scanning, security testing, identity, secrets, encryption, and access controls.
• Own vulnerability management, SOC 2, audits, customer security reviews, security telemetry, incident response, and the security roadmap.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience across infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud security, or security engineering.
• 4+ years owning security architecture or security programs for a production SaaS platform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and production incident response.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, network security, secrets and key management, vulnerability management, secure software delivery, and multi-tenant cloud architecture.
• Demonstrated ownership of SOC 2 or a comparable compliance program.
• Programming or automation experience with Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus experience building systems in an early-stage or high-growth company.

Nice to have

• Experience securing LLM-based or agentic systems, including tool use, model integrations, prompt injection, and data-leakage risks.
• Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Experience with disaster recovery, multi-account cloud foundations, regional or tenant isolation, or security and incident-response vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on ownership of infrastructure and security as hirify.global’s first dedicated security engineering leader.
• Opportunity to define the security function and build the team as the company scales.
• Partnership with engineering, product, customer success, executives, customers, auditors, and vendors.
• Equity included in the compensation package.