Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer
About the role
What we're looking for
We need an experienced security engineer with broad expertise across AWS infrastructure security, application security, and identity/access management who has owned security end-to-end as the first or sole security hire at a fast-moving startup. You should be comfortable operating with high autonomy in a small team, building security programs from scratch, and have a track record of making the secure path the easy path rather than gatekeeping. Bonus points if you have experience securing AI/agent systems or working in financial services.
What you'll do:
- Own infrastructure security across the entire AWS environment — VPC/VPN peering, network segmentation, IAM, secrets management — designing guardrails that make the secure default also the fastest one
- Take ownership of application security across web and desktop clients, embedding threat modeling, dependency/supply-chain controls, and secure code review into how the team designs and ships
- Build and manage identity and access controls (SSO, RBAC, least-privilege) for both humans and AI agents, ensuring every actor reaches exactly what it needs and nothing more
- Design audit trails and access controls that make autonomous agent activity fully reconstructable — what it did, on whose behalf, with what data, and why
- Own IT security in partnership with the IT MSP — devices, endpoints, and access for a 12-person in-office team
- Stand up and run compliance, auditability, bug bounty, VDP, and pentest programs that prove security posture to clients, partners, and auditors as a byproduct of how the system is built
About Arca
Arca is a wealth management firm built from the ground up with AI. Most people get financial advice that's reactive: an annual check-in, a plan that's a document instead of a living thing, a relationship where you're one of three hundred clients your advisor is trying to remember. Arca is rebuilding wealth management from the inside with AI — an Iron Man suit for advisors that takes over the low-leverage work so they can focus on what actually requires a human: showing up with empathy, context, and judgment. The platform keeps a living understanding of each client, notices when life changes happen, and adjusts before clients think to ask. Started by acquiring firms managing over $1B in client assets, giving real advisors, real clients, and real financial outcomes to build against from day one.
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Salary
$150,000 - $250,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
5+ years
Funding
Total raised
$64M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
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I pitch you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
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