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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 17 days Kikoff's roles stay open a median of 69 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 9% of Kikoff's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Kikoff
- high 37 stale, 0 reposted of 54 open
- Hiring momentum
- 73 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
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About this role
As a Senior Security Engineer focusing on Data Security at Kikoff, you will be responsible for overseeing the data security roadmap, including classification, access controls, encryption, and data flow security across various platforms. Your role involves designing and implementing security measures, ensuring compliance with regulations, and providing guidance to engineers on handling sensitive data effectively. You will work closely with legal and compliance teams to translate data handling requirements into actionable infrastructure changes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Kikoff as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years in security engineering with deep, hands-on data security experience: encryption, tokenization, access control design, key management
- Strong command of AWS security primitives (IAM, KMS, S3 security, VPC controls)
- Experience securing a modern data stack: Snowflake or a comparable warehouse, plus relational databases in production
- You've designed and shipped access control systems, not just configured them. Row/column-level security, ABAC/RBAC, access brokering
- Fluency in at least one language for automation (Python, Go, Ruby, or similar)
- Comfortable in a regulated environment
Nice to have
- Experience securing data access for AI/LLM systems and agentic workloads
- Tokenization at scale in fintech or payments
- Audit logging and data access monitoring you built yourself, not bought
- Privacy engineering depth: data mapping, retention, deletion pipelines, cross-border transfer controls
- Consumer fintech or financial services background
What you get
- Base Range $268,000 — $321,000 USD
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility
- The role requires significant experience and expertise in a specialized area of security engineering
- The company is in a fast-scaling phase which may imply a dynamic and potentially high-pressure work environment
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Listed by Kikoff on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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