Lead Security Engineer, Internal and IT
Lead the design and operation of internal security and IT systems for a cybersecurity company, ensuring compliance and protecting sensitive customer data.
- Compensation
- $180K–$230K / yr
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, IT security, or corporate security, with real ownership of internal security programs at a top-tier software/tech company
- Deep expertise in one or more of the following: identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security (AWS/GCP/Azure), or SaaS security
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 audits, including scoping, evidence collection, and working with auditors
- Strong understanding of modern attacker tradecraft — you know how real breaches happen, not just what the frameworks say
- Direct experience leading incident response for internal security events, from detection through post-mortem
- Familiarity with modern security tooling across EDR, SIEM, IAM, MDM, DLP, email security, and vulnerability management
- Strong systems thinking — you can balance security rigor with the reality of a fast-moving startup
- Clear communicator who can translate security tradeoffs to leadership and non-technical teams
- Comfort operating with autonomy in an early-stage environment and building programs from scratch, without a manager or team backing you up
Nice to have
- Prior experience as the first or founding internal security hire at a startup
- Background as a practitioner in cybersecurity — SOC, threat detection, red team, or product security experience
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, OSCP, GCIA, GCIH, CISA, or equivalent)
- Experience with security operations tooling that Artemis itself sells (SIEM, XDR, detection & response platforms)
- Familiarity with regulated frameworks beyond SOC 2 and ISO (FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR)
Full description
Artemis is building the future of AI-driven cybersecurity, helping companies defend themselves effectively in an era where AI is fighting AI on the cyber battlefield.
Our platform brings a new approach to the $100B security operations market, building a live model of each customer's environment and using AI agents to detect, investigate, hunt, and respond to threats at machine speed. Just one year after our founding, Artemis is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies of all time, with customers including multiple Fortune 500 companies, Global 2000 enterprises, and AI innovators like Cursor.
We have raised $70M from Felicis, First Round Capital, Theory Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Lockstep VC and Brightmind. We are also backed by some of the most prominent operators in cybersecurity, including the CEO of Crowdstrike, the former CEO and CTO of Splunk, and the founders of Abnormal AI and Demisto.
Artemis's founders have built and scaled security products used by tens of thousands of customers. Shachar Hirshberg (CEO) led Amazon GuardDuty, the world's largest cloud detection product, was an early employee at Demisto, the company that invented the SOAR category, was an engineering leader at Palo Alto Networks, and holds an MBA from Harvard. Dan Shiebler (CTO) led all AI and machine learning at Abnormal AI, the pioneer of behavior-based detection, spent five years building analytics using machine learning and vector databases at Twitter, and holds a PhD in machine learning from Oxford.
Our team of software engineers, AI researchers, security engineers, and product designers comes from Google, Meta, AWS, Wiz, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Abnormal AI, Perplexity, Bridgewater, Mercor, CERN, and more.
We're growing fast and looking for builders who want to help us serve our rapidly expanding customer base.
About The Role
Artemis Security is hiring our first Security Engineer to own internal security at the company. In a cybersecurity company, internal security isn't a checkbox — it's a reflection of everything we sell. Our customers trust us with their most sensitive telemetry, and how we run our own environment has to meet a bar higher than anyone else's.
This is a hands-on, senior IC role. You'll be the technical owner of Artemis's internal security posture, building the systems, controls, and programs that protect the company from the inside out. You'll also own the security-critical parts of our IT environment, working closely with our IT provider on execution. You'll report into leadership, partner with our founders, engineering, and security teams, and have the autonomy to build the security foundation the right way from day one.
You won't be managing a team. You'll be building the program.