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title: 'Compliance Engineer at Sent, Inc.'
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# Compliance Engineer at Sent, Inc.

- **Company:** Sent, Inc.
- **Location:** Kosovo
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sent/a535c9fa-bd7f-4059-b641-1c2495e8e1f8

## Job description

Job Title: Compliance Engineer Location: Prishtina, Kosovo

Company Overview Sent is building the messaging infrastructure that powers how businesses communicate with their customers. We provide a unified API for SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, and RCS, making it simple for developers to reach people on any channel. Backed by $5.8M in funding, we're growing rapidly and building the future of business messaging.

Position Summary We are looking for a highly technical Compliance Engineer to join our engineering team in Prishtina. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining software engineering, security, infrastructure, and compliance to build systems that are both secure and audit-ready. Rather than focusing solely on documentation, you will design and automate security and compliance controls, support SOC 2 and ISO 27001 initiatives, strengthen data privacy practices, and work closely with engineering teams to ensure compliance is embedded into our development processes. You'll help ensure that Sent's platform meets the expectations of enterprise customers while enabling engineers to ship quickly and securely.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead and maintain compliance initiatives including SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and related security frameworks.
- Design and automate security and compliance controls across infrastructure and engineering workflows.
- Develop automated evidence collection processes and compliance monitoring tools.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement secure development practices and improve security posture.
- Review infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and application architecture from a compliance and security perspective.
- Support internal and external audits by coordinating evidence, documentation, and technical responses.
- Maintain security policies, procedures, and risk assessments aligned with business operations.
- Manage vendor and third-party compliance reviews, including security assessments and documentation.
- Assist with incident response processes, security reviews, and continuous compliance improvements.
- Promote a culture of security, privacy, and compliance throughout the organization.

## Qualifications & Skills

- 3+ years of experience in Compliance Engineering, Security Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, or a related technical role.
- Experience working with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar compliance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience automating security or compliance controls using scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Familiarity with Linux systems, networking, identity and access management, secrets management, and security best practices.
- Understanding of modern software development processes and secure SDLC principles.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills (C1 or C2 proficiency required).
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership teams.
- Experience with SaaS platforms, messaging infrastructure, or cloud-native environments is considered a strong advantage..

## What We Offer

- Work with an experienced engineering team on products used by customers worldwide.
- Work on security and compliance challenges supporting enterprise-scale messaging infrastructure.
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing US technology company.
- Private health insurance (including 50% family coverage).
- Monthly gym membership allowance.
- Modern office in central Prishtina.
- Snacks, coffee, and refreshments in the office.
- Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing US technology company.
- In accordance with Kosovo Labor Law.

Work Schedule Monday–Friday, standard business hours 9-5 PM.

For any additional questions, feel free to contact us at hr@sent.dm. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

## About Sent, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sent is a unified API platform that enables developers to send messages across SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, and other channels through a single, intelligent interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (December)
- **Founders**: Daniel Vataj (CEO), Betim Drenica (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Messaging infrastructure / Developer tools / Telecommunications
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, engineering teams, and businesses (SMB to Enterprise) that need reliable, multi-channel messaging.
- **Mission or purpose**: To solve the reliability and complexity problems in messaging infrastructure, giving developers a simple, transparent, and dependable way to communicate with users across any channel.

## Products & Services
- **Sent API**: A single RESTful API that abstracts multiple messaging channels (SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, RCS). Handles authentication, rate limiting, retries, and automatic fallback between channels. Includes a sandbox mode for testing.
- **Intelligent Routing Engine**: Real-time decision-making for message delivery based on cost, delivery success rates, recipient preferences, and geographic optimization.
- **Smart Routing & Failover**: Automatically attempts delivery through fallback channels (e.g., SMS → WhatsApp) when the primary channel fails, requiring no additional code.
- **Real-Time Analytics & Webhooks**: Track message lifecycle, delivery confirmations, read receipts (where available), bounce reasons, and aggregate performance metrics.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – conflicting reports: **$5.8M** per company website [sent.dm](https://www.sent.dm/en/company/about-us) vs. **$4.55M** per LinkedIn (Pre-Seed $1.0M + Seed $3.5M) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentdm)
- **Notable Investors**: Bessemer Venture Partners, Urban Innovation Fund (Seed round lead); prior round includes 2 unnamed investors. Advisor/Investor: Brett Perlmutter.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Sent over **550 million** messages (company website)
  - **5,000+** active developers on the platform
  - Headcount grew **650% YoY** to 25 employees (LinkedIn)
  - Opened engineering presence in Kosovo and operations in Botswana
  - **99.9%** uptime SLA guarantee

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified API vs. point integrations**: Single integration for multiple channels, reducing maintenance overhead.
- **Intelligent routing & failover**: Automatic cost and delivery optimization without developer intervention.
- **Developer-first experience**: Clean docs, public roadmap, honest pricing, and transparent error handling.
- **Global by design**: Distributed team (US, Kosovo, Botswana) enables local compliance and carrier relationships.
- **Built by engineers who felt the pain**: Founders personally experienced messaging reliability failures, driving product obsession.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand supported channels (always evaluating new ones like RCS and iMessage).
- Deepen outbound compliance capabilities – hiring for international messaging compliance roles (WhatsApp, RCS).
- Grow self-serve developer funnel through SEO, paid channels, and lifecycle experimentation.
- Strengthen partnership ecosystem (technology, channel, and carrier partners).
- Scale enterprise sales with dedicated Account Executives and Technical Account Managers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Built for developers, by developers” – transparency in pricing, public roadmap, and honest docs. Values: Reliability, Simplicity, Innovation, Transparency.
- **Work model**: In-office at the New York City HQ (157 W…), with a globally distributed team across Kosovo and Botswana. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but roles are listed as “In-Office” on Built In NYC.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on developer experience, automation, and owning the full stack. Team includes Staff Engineer for Networks & Protocols. Open roles currently in compliance, demand generation, partnerships, account executive, and technical account manager.
- **Notable perks**: Startup equity, early employee impact, and opportunity to shape messaging infrastructure for millions of users. Public roadmap and open feedback loop with the developer community.

## Sources
1. [sent.dm – About Us](https://www.sent.dm/en/company/about-us)
2. [LinkedIn – Sent](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentdm)
3. [Built In NYC – Sent Jobs](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/sent/jobs)
4. [Sent API Docs – Platform Overview](https://docs.sent.dm/start/concepts/platform-overview)
5. [Ashby – Sent Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sent)

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