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title: 'CISO at Eon'
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# CISO at Eon

- **Company:** Eon
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio/jobs/4874479101

## Job description

Eon is transforming cloud backups into useful, active assets for the first time. Backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenoaks, BOND, and Elad Gil, Eon has raised $500M and reached a $4B valuation. Our Cloud Backup and Posture Management (CBPM) platform turns backup data into searchable, accessible, AI-ready assets across every cloud environment our customers run.

As Eon scales, security is becoming a first-class part of who we are — not just a function that supports the business, but a capability our customers trust their most critical data to. We're hiring our first Chief Information Security Officer to expand that capability.

## The Role

This is a full-scope, enterprise CISO role. You will own security at Eon end to end: setting the strategy, building and running the internal security program, leading the team that executes it, and representing that program to the board, regulators, and the enterprise customers who depend on us. You'll also be a visible face of security externally — in customer conversations, security reviews, and industry forums.

You'll work as a true executive partner to Engineering, Product, Sales, and Legal, with the autonomy to build Eon's security organization the right way, early, at a company still small enough for that work to define its trajectory.

## What You'll Own

Security Strategy & Program Leadership

- Define and own Eon's overall security strategy, roadmap, and budget, briefing the CEO, executive team, and board on posture, risk, and investment priorities.
- Build and lead the security function— hiring, structuring, and developing the team as Eon scales.
- Establish security policies, standards, and a risk management framework that scale with a fast-growing SaaS company.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

- Own Eon's compliance posture across SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and FedRAMP, including audit management and continuous readiness.
- Build a formal enterprise risk management program, including third-party and vendor risk.
- Keep policy and controls current with an evolving regulatory and customer compliance landscape.

Security Engineering & Operations

- Partner with Product and Engineering to embed secure-by-design principles into architecture and the software development lifecycle.
- Own detection, response, and vulnerability management, and lead incident response and crisis management when it matters most.
- Evaluate and implement the tooling needed to protect a cloud-native, multi-environment platform.

Customer Trust & Enterprise Growth

- Act as a trusted security advisor to enterprise customers and prospects, supporting security reviews, RFPs, and due diligence.
- Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering to unblock and accelerate strategic deals.
- Represent Eon's security program externally — with customers, at industry events, and in the broader security community — to build market trust in the Eon brand.

## What You Bring

- 10+ years in cybersecurity, including 5+ years in senior security leadership (CISO, VP Security, or Head of Security) at an enterprise SaaS or cloud company (CISO experience at enterprise highly preferred)
- A track record of building and scaling a security program from the ground up, ideally at a high-growth startup.
- Deep, hands-on knowledge of cloud, SaaS, infrastructure security, and data protection.
- Direct ownership of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and FedRAMP programs, including audits and certifications.
- Proven experience as an executive-level communicator — comfortable presenting to boards, executives, and enterprise customers alike.
- Experience recruiting, managing, and developing a security team.
- The judgment and pace to operate as a true owner in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with regulated environments and public sector security programs (FedRAMP, StateRAMP).
- Background in cloud infrastructure, data protection, or backup and recovery products.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP.
- Experience scaling a security function through hypergrowth (Series C and beyond).

## Why Eon

- Build the function: shape Eon's security program and team from day one, with direct visibility to the CEO and board.
- Backed to move fast: $500M raised and a $4B valuation from Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenoaks, BOND, and Elad Gil.
- High-leverage role: your work directly enables enterprise trust, revenue growth, and Eon's category leadership in cloud data protection.

## About Eon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eon provides a cloud-native data infrastructure platform that turns backups, archives, and cloud resources into an AI-ready, analytics-accessible data lake.
- **Entity Type**: Private ($497M total funding; Series D)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (also operates in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; Mexico City, Mexico; and Italy)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Ofir Ehrlich (CEO, Co-founder), Gonen Stein (President, Co-founder), Ron Kimchi (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Data Infrastructure & Analytics; Cloud Backup; AI Data Readiness
- **Target customers**: Forture 500s and global enterprises with complex cloud infrastructure — B2B, Enterprise focus
- **Mission**: “Make the world’s cloud data faster, safer, and smarter.” Eon is on a mission to turn passive backup storage into active, queryable infrastructure that data engineers and AI teams can use instantly.

## Products & Services
- **Eon Data Protection**: Automated, agentless cloud backup and protection with continuous mapping, classification, and incremental discovery of cloud resources. Reduces storage costs by up to 50% via global deduplication. Includes Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) and log archiving for instant recovery down to a single database row or file. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Eon Data Lake Infrastructure**: Converts backups, archives, and cloud resources into a managed, zero-ETL data lake using open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet). Instantly queryable via Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery. Built-in AI enables natural-language search and AI agent connections via MCP and A2A connectors. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Unified Storage Format**: Open, analytics-ready data platform that turns cloud data into a zero-ETL data lake for any granularity.
- **Role-Based Access Control & Comprehensive Audit Reporting**: For enterprise compliance and security.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $497M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series B, C, D)
    - Seed Round (Jan 2024): $20M led by Sequoia Capital
    - Series B (Oct 2024): $77M led by Greenoaks Capital
    - Series C (Nov 2024): $70M led by BOND Capital
    - Series D (Dec 2025): $300M led by Elad Gil
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Notable Investors**: Elad Gil, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, BOND Capital
- **Key Metric**: Revenue is not publicly available (private company); total funding is $497M
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Headcount grew 111.8% YoY (+114 employees) to 131 people as of recent data [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io)
    - Monthly headcount growth of +9.6%
    - Founded by the team behind CloudEndure (acquired by AWS), who built AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Application Migration Service — two native AWS services that support the world’s largest enterprises
    - Over 18 employees formerly from Amazon Web Services (AWS); talent also drawn from Google, Microsoft, Unity, Wix, Cohesity, and Israeli Military Intelligence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-ever Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) platform** — a new category that Eon practically invented
- **Agentless and read-only IAM role design** — zero attack surface, no hidden fees, no software to deploy
- **Cloud-native global deduplication** — reduces storage costs by up to 50% and improves performance via parallelized reads
- **Zero-ETL data lake** — eliminates the need for brittle ETL pipelines to make backup data useful for AI and analytics; data is automatically converted to open table formats
- **Founding team’s deep AWS expertise** — founded CloudEndure, built two AWS native services; deep credibility with enterprise cloud infrastructure

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Eon platform as the “backup autopilot” for modern cloud infrastructure
- Converting backup data into AI-ready assets via built-in AI agents, natural-language search, and open table formats
- Scaling go-to-market in the U.S. (Active job postings for Sales Directors, Account Executives in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York)
- Building out channels and partner ecosystems (Director of Channels - East/West)
- International expansion: operations already in 5 countries; hiring in Tel Aviv and New York

## Why Work Here
- **Radical Ownership & Flat Structure**: “We’re flat by design. Direct collaboration with the founders and real authority to make decisions that move the company forward.” Skill and impact matter more than hierarchy or titles. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers)
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount grew 111% in the last year; the company has raised $497M and is scaling fast
- **Culture of Speed and Experimentation**: “Speed isn’t just how we build—it’s who we are.” “We experiment fearlessly, build fast, and celebrate the wins together.”
- **Excellent Above All**: Holds itself to the highest standards; hires top talent that Fortune 500s trust
- **“Enjoy the Ride”**: Fun is taken seriously — “Happy people build better products.” Support, rewards, and celebration are part of the culture
- **Remote / Hybrid**: Roles advertised include hybrid (Tel Aviv, New York) and remote options (Technical Customer Success for US, Solutions Architect in Tel Aviv) [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio)
- **Engineering Culture**: Founded by CloudEndure/AWS veterans; strong engineering DNA with 52 technical employees; recruits heavily from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and elite tech teams

## Sources
1. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/) — Product information, platform description, feature highlights
2. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers) — Culture, values, career page
3. [eon.io/about](https://www.eon.io/about) — Founders, story, mission, and news
4. [linkedin.com/company/eon-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io) — Employee count, headcount growth, talent sources, demographics, funding rounds
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio) — Active job postings and locations

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