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title: 'Founding Engineer at unboundsecurity.ai'
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# Founding Engineer at unboundsecurity.ai

- **Company:** unboundsecurity.ai
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2024-10-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/unboundsecurity-ai/am9icG9zdDoL4qwaUmYHxJcQbiJfhvoR

## Job description

Founding Engineer at Unbound Security

## About Us

Unbound is changing how AI gets consumed in enterprises. One in four enterprises has blocked generative AI apps, and we recognize immense value in unlocking AI's power within organizations. Our first product is a software that enables employees to use AI safely without compromising sensitive organizational information. Unbound is proudly backed by top-tier VCs, including Y Combinator and others.

## What You Will Be Doing

- Engage in Hands-On Coding: You will dedicate most of your time to hands-on coding, developing, and owning features across the entire product stack from conception to deployment. We have async systems to promote development without being bogged down in meetings all day!
- Build Systems and Cloud Infrastructure: You will design, build, and scale robust systems and cloud infrastructure to support our applications and enable secure, efficient interactions with major AI platforms.
- Define Technical Strategy and Culture: You will collaborate closely with the founding team to shape technical strategies, influence product development, and establish our engineering culture and best practices.
- Proactive Problem Solving: You will drive success by proactively contributing wherever you can, without waiting for established processes.
- Embrace Fast-Paced Development: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, iterating and testing in line with lean startup best practices, always eager to learn.
- Demonstrate Quality and Foresight: You meticulously analyze potential outcomes and demonstrate foresight in considering various situations, ensuring high-quality results in all aspects of your work.

What are we looking for

- Senior/Staff-Level Experience at companies operating at scale
- Built Complex Systems from Scratch
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure
- Previous startup experience (Nice to Have)
- Experience building in the AI stack (Nice to Have; or a hunger to learn)

## What We Offer

- Impactful Work: A role at the forefront of technology, with vast opportunities for innovation and significant impact.
- Growth: The chance to shape the future of AI adoption in enterprises and enhance the security of generative AI technology.
- Collaborative Team Environment: Work alongside a dedicated team committed to excellence and innovation.

## Our Values

- Owner Mentality: We take pride in our work, treat the company as our own, and proactively take initiative to drive success.
- Obsession with Building and Deploying: We are highly obsessed with building and deploying exceptional products, relentlessly striving to enhance the customer experience.
- Learning from Our Mistakes: Like AI models that keep learning, we grow from our mistakes, continuously improving ourselves and our work.
- Continuous Iteration: We embrace the power of refinement, welcoming feedback to iteratively enhance our products and processes.
- Collaborative: We are a team of high achievers; we enjoy each other's company and collaborate effectively.
- Humility: We have strong opinions but hold them loosely, collaborating without ego and valuing diverse perspectives.

## About unboundsecurity.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Unbound provides an Agent Access Security Broker (AASB) that gives enterprises visibility and policy control over AI coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $4.1M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also office in Menlo Park)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Rajaram Srinivasan (CEO) and Vignesh Subbiah (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – AI governance / AI security
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise engineering and security teams
- **Mission statement**: “Use AI tools without fear of data leakage” – enabling developer productivity while maintaining security and compliance.

## Products & Services
- **Unbound Agent Access Security Broker (AASB)**: A SaaS platform that sits between AI coding agents and the systems they access. Capabilities include:
  - **Discovery**: Inventory every AI coding agent, MCP server, and IDE plugin in use across the organization.
  - **Posture Scoring**: Per-developer and team risk scores based on agent configurations.
  - **Policy Enforcement**: Allow/deny/require-approval for terminal commands, file access, MCP server interactions, and AI-generated code actions.
  - **Audit Logging**: Full compliance-grade record of all agent actions.
  - **Secret Detection & Redaction**: Automatically catch and block sensitive data (keys, tokens, secrets) from leaking to LLM providers.
  - **Private Model Routing**: Route requests containing sensitive data to private LLM endpoints (e.g., Vertex AI, Bedrock) instead of public models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4.125 million (seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Race Capital, Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Pioneer Fund; featured on AWS Marketplace; SOC 2 compliant.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 40% year-over-year to 12 employees.
  - Actively hiring for founding engineer, growth engineer, and software engineering intern roles.
  - Processes over a million AI agent tool calls per month in production for early customers.
  - Recognized as a new category (“AASB”) by analyst reports and media.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in dedicated AASB category** – purpose-built for AI coding agents, not a repurposed DLP or CASB solution.
- **Founding team pedigree**: CEO Rajaram Srinivasan led data security products at Palo Alto Networks and Imperva; CTO Vignesh Subbiah builds the high-performance policy engine handling millions of agent calls.
- **Granular, semantic policy controls** – goes beyond regex-based blocking to understand intent (e.g., terminal command semantics, MCP tool scope).
- **Built-in secret detection and private LLM routing** – addresses the core fear of data leakage for enterprises adopting AI coding tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Deepening integration with more coding agents, MCP servers, and enterprise identity providers (SAML/OIDC/SCIM).
- **Go-to-market**: Growing enterprise sales through AWS Marketplace and direct channels; targeting compliance-heavy industries (finance, healthcare, tech).
- **Engineering hiring**: Building out the founding engineering team to accelerate feature development and scale infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact early stage**: Join as a founding engineer and directly shape the product, architecture, and engineering culture.
- **Cutting-edge domain**: Work at the intersection of AI and security – one of the fastest-growing areas in cybersecurity.
- **Autonomy and ownership**: Lean startup with async workflows, minimal meetings, and a bias toward shipping code and iterating fast.
- **Distributed team**: Workforce split between US (San Francisco/Menlo Park) and India; remote-friendly environment.
- **Backed by top investors**: Y Combinator, Race Capital, and other notable angels provide strong support and network.
- **Culture**: Tight-knit team (12 people) with a focus on technical excellence, proactive problem-solving, and rapid iteration.

## Sources
1. [getunbound.ai/about](https://getunbound.ai/about)
2. [linkedin.com/company/unboundsec](https://linkedin.com/company/unboundsec)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/unbound](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/unbound)
4. [builtin.com/job/founding-engineer/10419398](https://builtin.com/job/founding-engineer/10419398)
5. [docs.getunbound.ai/introduction](https://docs.getunbound.ai/introduction)

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