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title: 'Cloud Security Engineer at First Connect Insurance'
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# Cloud Security Engineer at First Connect Insurance

- **Company:** First Connect Insurance
- **Location:** Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/firstconnectinsurance/jobs/5434864008

## Job description

## About First Connect

First Connect Insurance Services is a digital marketplace providing independent insurance agents access to top US carriers and the optionality necessary to grow their businesses. Agents can work with 150+ carriers, selling various insurance policies, including home, auto, small business, and more. We're on a mission to overhaul the technology agents have access to, putting consumer-grade software at their fingertips. We've got thousands of active agents with hundreds joining monthly, and we plan to accelerate our growth.

## Role Overview

First Connect is fully cloud-native — no offices, no data centers, everything we run lives in the cloud and ships through our pipelines. That makes cloud and infrastructure security the center of gravity for our whole security program, and it's the part of the program we are building right now.

This is a hands-on engineering role and most of what you own will be implemented, configured and tuned from scratch rather than inherited: cloud security posture and workload protection, infrastructure and IaC guardrails, automation that removes manual security work, and the emerging practice around how we secure both our internal use of AI and the AI capabilities in our product and development. You'll also help us keep our security engineering aligned with our SOC 2 Type II and financial-services regulatory obligations.

You'll join our team as our first dedicated Cloud Security Engineer, reporting directly to our Information Security Manager, and working side by side with our DevOps and R&D teams in Poland, Israel and the US.

What You'll Do:

- Secure and harden our cloud estate: Own the security posture of our AWS environment (identity and access, network boundaries, encryption and key management). Build security into how our infrastructure is defined and deployed: Terraform modules and guardrails, Kubernetes and ECS workloads, container images, secrets management and policy-as-code.
- Stand up security tooling and detection: Help select, deploy and fine-tune cloud security platforms (CNAPP/CSPM, workload protection, logging and detection), mostly starting from a blank slate. Make sure our telemetry has the right sources, coverage and alerts, and support investigations when something looks wrong.
- Embed and automate security in delivery: Build SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and container scanning into our pipelines, cut the noise, and partner with developers on fixing what matters. Treat manual security effort as a bug: findings become tickets, checks become gates, and evidence collects itself.
- Secure AI across the company and our product: Help the company adopt AI safely by reviewing tools and connectors, mapping data flows, and controlling prompt injection, data exposure and over-permissioned integrations. Work with R&D on the AI capabilities we ship to agents, from threat modeling to controls and monitoring.
- Support the AI code factory: Review, advise on and help set up fully automated AI code deployment and product development.
- Be the go-to expert: Act as the technical reference point for cloud security across R&D and DevOps. Review designs, give clear guidance, and make the secure path the easy path.

## What you'll bring

- Experience: 6+ years across cloud/infrastructure engineering and information security, with substantial hands-on time in cloud security.
- AWS and infrastructure depth: You've secured real production AWS environments (IAM and organization-level controls, networking, encryption, logging) and can explain the trade-offs you made. You also have solid production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes and/or ECS.
- A builder's mindset: You've implemented security tooling from scratch, which means you chose it, rolled it out, tuned it and lived with the results. You're comfortable with ownership and ambiguity, because this program is being built, not maintained.
- Coding and automation: You write real code (Python, TypeScript/Node, Go or similar), work comfortably with APIs, and build things that run in CI/CD without supervision.
- Influence and collaboration: You're a technical authority who wins teams over with reasoning and working solutions rather than mandates. You drive the technical direction while making decisions together with Security and R&D leadership, and you prefer teamwork to lone-wolf security.
- Communication and languages: You communicate clearly, in writing and in speech, with DevOps, R&D and non-technical stakeholders across three countries and several time zones. You need professional English and Polish (both C1).
- Location and availability: You're based in Poland and open to occasional afternoon meetings (CET) with colleagues in other time zones.

Even better if you also have

- Application security experience: Pipeline-based scanning, dependency and secrets hygiene, common web and API vulnerability classes, and the judgment to prioritize them sensibly.
- AI fluency: You use modern AI tools in your daily work, understand the risks behind them (prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, third-party AI data flows), and want to go deeper.

Recruitment process

- Send us your CV and fill out the application form.
- Meet Karolina, our Recruiter, for an initial interview.
- Interview with Dayan, our Senior Information Security Manager.
- Technical session with our DevOps team.
- Meet Wojtek and Ola for a conversation about how we work.
- ... and welcome aboard! 👋

## What you'll get in return

🪎 Salary: 31 000 - 37 000 PLN net + VAT

What benefits are waiting for you

- 🏡 Remote work & flexible working hours
- 🏝️ Non-service days
- 🏥 Private medical care — covers dental care, physiotherapy, and psychological support, with full coverage for your entire family
- 🆘 Group life insurance
- ⛹🏻‍♂️ MultiSport — 75% covered via the cafeteria platform
- 🗣️ English language learning budget
- 🤑 Cafeteria platform with monthly budget
- 👓 Glasses reimbursement every 3 years
- ✈ Team building events — annual Offsite & Christmas Parties, plus the workation week

## About First Connect Insurance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: First Connect is an all-in-one insurtech platform that empowers independent insurance agents with digital tools, carrier access, and streamlined workflows to grow their agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Centana Growth Partners in November 2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Founded**: 2014 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Insurtech (Insurance Technology), Digital Distribution for Independent Insurance Agencies
- **Target customers**: B2B — Independent insurance agents and agencies across the U.S.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We’re on a mission to connect agents with the best insurance solutions while building a team of driven, innovative, and customer-focused professionals." [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)

## Products & Services
- **Carrier Marketplace (Carrier Store)**: A self-service platform providing access to 150+ insurance carrier and MGA partners across home, auto, commercial, life, and specialty lines. Zero onboarding or subscription fees. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Quote Connector**: A proprietary comparative rater that delivers fast, side-by-side quotes from multiple carriers, helping agents find the right coverage for clients. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Appetite Finder**: Real-time tool that maps carrier market appetite to client needs, helping agents quickly identify which carriers to approach in a dynamic insurance market. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Self-Service Dashboard**: Enables quoting, binding, and policy servicing directly from a single, intuitive platform. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Incentive & Bonus Programs**: Introductory offers, quarterly bonuses, sales contests, and exclusive carrier incentives. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; acquired by Centana Growth Partners (November 2024) for $100M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
- **Total Funding**: $48.0M (Private Equity round dated November 2024, led by Centana Growth Partners) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
- **Key Metric**: Surpassed $500 million in annual gross written premium in 2025 [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)
- **Revenue (Estimated)**: $631.8K (annual, according to third-party data; may not reflect actual top-line growth given premium volume) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Centana Growth Partners (parent company); 150+ carrier and MGA partners [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices) [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 71.6% YoY headcount growth (102 employees as of latest data) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
  - 5,710 LinkedIn followers with +47.7% yearly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
  - Named to Inc.'s 2026 Best Workplaces list [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)
  - 95% of employees classified as "highly engaged" in confidential surveys [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Free platform with zero fees**: No onboarding, subscription, or hidden costs for agents — they keep more commissions. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Broad carrier access in one place**: 150+ carrier partners across multiple insurance lines (personal, commercial, life, specialty), reducing the need for multiple logins and relationships. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Proprietary technology**: Quote Connector comparative rater and Appetite Finder are differentiated tools that streamline quoting and market matching for agents. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Fast onboarding**: Average agent sign-up completed in 5 minutes; instant access to select carriers via one-click request. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
- **Carrier partnerships + agent focus**: Acts as a true intermediary with incentives, exclusive offers, and dedicated support for agencies, not just a listing directory.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling platform adoption**: Rapidly growing premium volume (surpassed $500M GWP in 2025) and agent base. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)
- **AI-powered capabilities**: Embedding AI into quoting workflows, market appetite matching, and carrier-agent collaboration to further differentiate. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)
- **Global talent expansion**: Building engineering teams in Poland (remote) and product/leadership in Tel Aviv, with a growing U.S. presence. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)
- **Post-acquisition growth**: Under Centana Growth Partners, likely focused on accelerating product development, expanding carrier partnerships, and increasing market share in the independent agent channel.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & engagement**: Named to Inc.'s 2026 Best Workplaces list with a 96% overall workplace score; 95% of employees are "highly engaged." The most-used word to describe the environment is "collaborative." [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workplaces/)
- **Work model**: Remote and hybrid options available based on role and location. Roles open in the U.S. (remote, PST/MST/CST time zones preferred), Poland (remote), and Tel Aviv (hybrid). [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)
- **Total rewards**: Competitive compensation, equity, comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, parental leave, wellness programs, and mental health support. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)
- **Values-driven culture**: Integrity & Transparency, Customer Focus, Innovate With Purpose, Team Camaraderie, Ownership, and Action Oriented. [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling company (70%+ headcount growth YoY) with career development paths and challenging work at the intersection of insurance and technology.
- **Open roles (as of July 2025)**: Engineering (Fullstack Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer in Poland), Product (Senior Product Manager in Poland), Marketing (Product Marketing Manager in U.S.), Sales (Account Manager, SDR, Strategic Account Manager in U.S.). [firstconnectinsurance.com](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)

## Sources
1. [First Connect Insurance Website](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/)
2. [First Connect Insurance Careers Page](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/careers/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstconnectinsuranceservices)
4. [Inc. Best Workplaces 2026 Announcement](https://www.firstconnectinsurance.com/blog/first-connect-inc-2026-best-workpl

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