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Security Engineer

Unwrap.AI

Santa Barbara, CAFull-timePosted todayStill listed today

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Compensation
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Location
Santa Barbara, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Job overview

Unwrap.ai is seeking a Security Engineer to lead its security and compliance program within the engineering team. The role focuses on scaling the program, prioritizing risk, improving security systems, advising on product, architecture, and vendor risk, and evolving identity and permissions for AI features. The position is in person in Santa Barbara five days a week.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security EngineeringRegulatory ComplianceRisk ManagementIncident ResponseCloud Computing SecurityDetection EngineeringRisk AssessmentCompute SecurityNetwork SecurityStorage SecurityDetection-as-CodeLLM Security WorkflowsAI SecurityContainer SecurityVendor Security ReviewsM&a Security ReviewsThreat IntelligenceForensicsTeamwork

Qualifications

5+ Years Security ExperienceSenior IC or Technical Lead ExperienceSanta Barbara Location or Relocation

Full job description

Do you love to obsess over security? Are you one of the most ambitious people you know? If so, you'll be right at home at Unwrap.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to lead Unwrap's security and compliance program. You'll sit within our engineering team, scale our security program, and protect the data our customers trust us with.

Specifically, you will:

  • Scale Unwrap’s security program. Set the roadmap, prioritize by real risk, and report on risk directly to leadership.

  • Build systems that continuously improve our security systems as the industry and technology evolve.

  • Be the voice of security risk. Take and defend clear positions on product, architecture, and vendor risk, and lead fast security reviews.

  • Think about the future. Evolve identity and permissions for our AI and agent features, and work with leadership and engineering on cloud hardening, secure SDLC, and SOC 2.

This is an in-person role in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. Our office is downtown, walking distance to great restaurants, coffee shops, and the beach.

Who We Are We’re currently a team of 40, based in Santa Barbara, and growing extremely quickly. We are venture-backed, and raised our $12M Series A from world-leading VCs. Our customers include leading companies across many industries, like Stripe, Perplexity, DoorDash, Microsoft, lululemon, WHOOP, Oura, Clay, and many more.

Unwrap.ai is on a mission to fill the world with products people love. We do this by helping companies understand their customers like never before. Specifically, we ingest feedback from thousands of sources (support channels, surveys, social), use state-of-the-art NLP technology to extract actionable insights, and empower teams to take action on these insights to ship better products.

Our founders, two ex-Amazon Alexa Product Managers, were tired of manually sifting through customer reviews, support tickets, and bugs while working on Alexa. They understood the importance of listening to customers and prioritizing their requests effectively, but simply had too much feedback to parse through. So, Unwrap.ai was born to solve this problem.

Our small team is extremely motivated, hard-working, and simply gets stuff done. If this sounds exciting, we can't wait to read your application.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or incident response, including time as a senior IC or technical lead.

  • Broad technical depth across compute, network, and storage, so you can judge real risk across the stack.

  • Nice to have: detection-as-code, using LLMs in security workflows, securing AI systems, container security, vendor or M&A security reviews, or threat intel and forensics.

  • You are excited about working at a startup pace. The role frequently requires more than the 9-5 commitment, but you’re excited for the impact and autonomy that provides.

  • Located in or willing to relocate to Santa Barbara and excited about working in-person 5 days a week.

  • Teammates love working with you.

What You Get

  • Significant, potentially life-changing equity.

  • The chance to build Unwrap's security program from the ground up with a direct line to leadership.

  • Learn about and have influence over all parts of the business, including finance, people, fundraising, product, etc.

  • Ability to rapidly advance your career alongside company growth.

  • Collaborate with experienced teammates, entrepreneurs, and advisors.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,171 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$167–248K/yr644 salary ranges
  • US median$60–70/hr83 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 783 open Security Engineer jobs in California and 4,171 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,634 postings).
Education
1,297 of the 4,171 open Security Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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