Forward Deployed Security Engineer (FDSE) — Zaun 🛡️

$200–300k • Founding Engineer Equity

San Francisco Only. No Sponsorships

Zaun is building the future of AI-powered security services. We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Security Engineer who wants to work directly with defenders, bring AI automation into workflows that protect millions of devices, and push the product forward through unconventional thinking in a traditional industry.

About Us

Threats are getting smarter. Legacy operations aren’t.

Zaun is here to break apart the cybersecurity services model because it’s not working today. It’s too expensive, slow to execute, and full of promises.

Zaun gives human defenders the correlation, speed, and quality they’ve been missing without costing the organizations they are protecting an arm and a leg.

We’re backed by 10VC, Afore Capital, and Spacecadet, and our team comes from Palantir and Securonix. We’re here to build the next generation of security defense — not just splash neon brand colors on old ideas.

What You’ll Work On

• Interact with our customer engineers and analysts regularly
• Touch every part of our stack (TypeScript/Next.js + FastAPI/Python + AWS). If a customer needs something quick or something is broken, it’s up to you to do it—no need to file a ticket.
• Build, customize, and optimize AI workflows that turn into real workflows that catch threats.
• Build and monitor security data flows from hundreds of tools and terabytes of data
• Create integrations with some absurd security tools whose API docs were probably written in the 20th century.
• Enforce product direction with real customer needs and your (good) opinions. Define what next-gen SecOps looks like for a $100B market.