Who you are
You ship. You've owned real products used by real people, and you measure yourself by what made it into customers' hands, not by the tidiness of your backlog. Ambiguity doesn't slow you down. You'd rather write the first draft, put it in front of people, and get corrected than wait for perfect information.
You're technical enough to earn an engineer's respect. You can read a design doc, ask the question that exposes the risk, and hold your own in a scoping conversation without needing a translator. That same depth shows up in how you think about security. Maybe you've carried a pager, run a detection program, or sat in a SOC at 2am. Maybe you haven't, and what you have instead is a track record of dropping into an unfamiliar domain and pulling expertise out of the people who live in it, fast. Either path works here. What doesn't work is holding confident opinions about a security workflow you've never watched anyone actually perform.
You want to break new ground. This category is being defined right now, in public, and there is no reference design to copy. Plenty of what we build has no precedent, and the honest answer to "how does everyone else solve this?" is often that they don't. That should energize you rather than worry you. Our best work comes from people who look at how the industry has always done something, conclude it's wrong, and can explain exactly why.
You have strong judgment about what matters. When everything is urgent, you pick the right thing, explain why in a sentence, and move. You're comfortable saying no, and comfortable being wrong quickly.
What you'll bring
- Demonstrated judgment under ambiguity, with a bias toward deciding and moving
- A high sense of urgency and personal ownership over outcomes
- Appetite for building in a category with no established playbook
- A track record of owning products end to end and shipping on a fast cadence
- Either real depth in security operations, or a proven ability to acquire domain expertise quickly by working shoulder to shoulder with expert customers
- Experience working directly with customers, including technical buyers and practitioners
- Exceptional written and verbal communication. Your documents are the artifact the team works from