--- title: 'Lead Security Engineer at Arcana Analytics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-security-engineer-arcana-analytics-bengaluru-rxrrg7x4x589' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Lead Security Engineer at Arcana Analytics - **Company:** Arcana Analytics - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2025-06-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcanaanalytics/jobs/4005201009 ## Job description As our Lead Security Engineer, you'll own and elevate Arcana's overall security posture - cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. You'll design and enforce policies, automate controls, and harden infrastructure end-to-end. While your primary focus will be on our GCP resources, you'll also partner with teams across networking, applications, and compliance to ensure we're secure by design and resistant to drift. Responsibilities: - Enterprise Security Architecture - Governance and Compliance, including driving adherence to ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and enforcing CIS benchmarks on all infrastructure. - Policy, Automation, and Guardrails - own the end-to-end security lifecycle by defining policy-as-code, embedding continuous compliance checks into CI/CD, and building automated, drift-resistant guardrails across cloud, containers, and VMs. - Infrastructure Hardening and Drift Detection - implement automated drift alerts and self-healing playbooks for VPCs, firewall rules, Kubernetes clusters, and endpoints. - Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response - configure Cloud Audit Logs, SIEM exports, and custom alerts for critical security events; lead root-cause investigations, build detection logic, and develop runbooks for cloud-wide incidents. Requirements: - 5+ years driving security and compliance in dynamic, regulated environments- securing cloud-native platforms and hybrid infrastructures, with deep familiarity in fintech and portfolio-management standards, and best practices for supporting distributed, remote teams. - Deep expertise with GCP security (IAM, KMS, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Logging/Audit, WAF, SecOps) and Kubernetes application hardening. - Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform or equivalent) and GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux). - Proficiency in Python scripting and policy-as-code frameworks (OPA, Gatekeeper). - Excellent communicator - able to translate technical findings into clear policies and remediation plans. Helpful Experience: - Familiarity with multi-cloud security controls. - Security certifications (GCP Professional Security Engineer, CISSP, CKA/CKS). - Experience with service mesh (Istio/Anthos) or zero-trust architectures. ## About Arcana Analytics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Arcana provides a portfolio intelligence platform that enables institutional investors to analyze risk, decompose performance, and surface alpha through proprietary crowding, ownership, and factor datasets. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Rich Falk-Wallace (CEO) and Siva Visakan Sooriyan (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Financial technology (FinTech), investment analytics, risk management - Target customers: Institutional investors – hedge funds, asset managers, and portfolio managers (B2B, Enterprise) - Mission or purpose statement: “Portfolio intelligence for hedge funds and asset managers — analyze risk, decompose performance, and surface alpha.” ## Products & Services - **Risk Model Core**: Sophisticated fundamental equity factor risk models with parsimonious core factors and extensive custom factor library. Provides long- and short-horizon analysis and visibility. (SaaS) - **Ownership, Crowding, & Performance Database**: Live short interest data, treasury holdings, and full idio/factor model for precise crowding and positioning insights. (Data feed / SaaS) - **Optimization, Scenarios, Screening, & API**: Tools for building analytically‑constructed books, running scenario analysis, idea/hedge screening, and advanced API access. (SaaS + API) - **Cross‑Market Synthesis**: Combines single‑stock options, implied earnings moves, macro exposures, consensus estimate revisions, and positioning to explain stock movement drivers. (SaaS) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $5.3M (CBInsights); Series A led by D1 Capital Partners and Abstract Ventures (LinkedIn notes additional investors including Duquesne (Stan Druckenmiller), Tiger Global, GoldenTree Asset Management, Ryan Roslansky, and Akshay Kothari) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: D1 Capital, Duquesne, Tiger Global, Abstract Ventures, GoldenTree Asset Management, Ryan Roslansky (CEO LinkedIn), Akshay Kothari (COO Notion) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~180% YoY to 194 employees. Active job postings increased +166.7% year over year (24 open roles). LinkedIn followers surged +3846.9% YoY. Expanding presence in India (Bangalore, Coimbatore) and Ecuador. ## Competitive Advantages - Only provider combining live short‑interest data with full factor risk and idiosyncratic models for unprecedented crowding accuracy. - Sophisticated factor models explain ~75% of large‑cap single‑stock moves, giving clients clarity on drivers vs. residual alpha. - 20‑year factor model history and live intraday factor returns produce real‑time portfolio insights. - Institutional backing and advisory from top‐tier investment firms and tech leaders. ## Strategic Focus - Building AI agents that synthesize information across heterogeneous sources to deliver structured, actionable insights (multiple Senior AI Engineer roles posted). - Expanding client coverage globally (hiring Accounts Director for Hong Kong/APAC) and deepening engineering talent in India. - Scaling the platform to serve a broader set of institutional clients with optimization, scenario analysis, and API workflows. ## Why Work Here - Rapidly growing startup (180% YoY headcount growth) with proven product‑market fit and prestigious investors. - Hybrid/on‑site culture: roles in New York, Bangalore, and Coimbatore; about 46% of openings are hybrid, 50% on‑site, 4% remote. - Exposure to cutting‑edge work in financial risk modeling, AI, and data engineering. - Notable perks: working with proprietary datasets, direct impact on a product used by top hedge funds, and a collaborative “analytically driven” problem‑solving environment. - Engineering culture emphasizes modern infrastructure, AI agents, and real‑time data pipelines. ## Sources 1. [arcana.io](https://www.arcana.io/) 2. [LinkedIn – Arcana Analytics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcanaanalytics) 3. [CBInsights – Arcana](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/arcana-1) 4. [Greenhouse Careers – Arcana Analytics](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcanaanalytics) 5. 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