Software Engineer (Security)

Department: Engineering

Location: New York City

Compensation: $160K – $265K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

About Outtake

Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors, and takes down impersonators, automating protection in hours, not weeks.

Built by ex-Palantir, ex-CTO/founders, and ex-Notion engineers, Outtake is designed for clarity, autonomy, and velocity. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet. And we intend to do it with a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team.

Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model. With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.

About You

Engineering at Outtake is built on ownership, clarity, and end-to-end impact. We hire entrepreneurial engineers who think in systems, not tickets.

Our teams are flat and autonomous: engineers ship fast, make product decisions, and own outcomes from concept to deployment. We optimize for grit + velocity, which means every engineer operates with the scope, influence, and equity of a future CTO.

What you'll do

• You'll be our second security hire, which means massive ownership, the ability to shape the function from the ground up, and a direct line to how security scales with the company

• Own the security posture of our cloud infrastructure: AWS, EKS, Vercel, Supabase

• Build our detection and response capabilities for capable incident response

• Design and operate our secrets, credential, and access management architecture across our services

• Partner with engineering on secure-by-default patterns: IAM, network segmentation, privilege, and access control.

• Help shape our agentic AI security posture as the platform evolves

What we're looking for

• 3+ years in infrastructure security, security operations, or platform engineering with strong security ownership

• Hands-on Kubernetes security: RBAC, network policies, admission control, secrets handling

• Experience architecting effective precise D&R SIEM/SOAR systems

• Comfort writing and shipping code in your language of choice

• Real incident response experience as an IC, including communicating with non-security stakeholders under pressure

• Pragmatism about the tradeoffs between security, velocity, and developer experience at an early-stage company

Nice to have

• Background defending or attacking AI/ML systems and agent infrastructure

• Endpoint security operations (EDR/MDR)

• You've been the security person at a small company before and know how the function evolves

Life at Outtake

• Office: For those in NY, we are an in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed) working out of a stunning waterfront office in Brooklyn. Collaboration, speed, and clarity matter.

• Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.

• Time Away: Flexible PTO. We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time.

• Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.

Outtake is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.