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# Lead Security Engineer at Nuvo

- **Company:** Nuvo
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/nuvo/am9icG9zdDpDbBUZkmw5TTROcMeRod_s

## Job description

## About Nuvo

We’re Redefining the $11T B2B Commerce and Payments Market

Nuvo is bringing B2B commerce online.

While technology has reshaped consumer commerce, the business-to-business (B2B) economy — three times larger— has lagged behind.

From coffee to lumber, every product we use has been traded through a complex supply chain of suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. Despite the massive scale of this market, most businesses manage their trading relationships and commerce activities using outdated methods like paper forms, PDFs, emails, faxes, phone calls, and spreadsheets, making processes slow and inefficient.

Much like how Shopify, Stripe and Square have transformed how consumer companies transact, we aim to do the same for B2B companies.

## About the Role

We are looking for a lead security engineer to stand up and own security at a company building category-defining products. Our problems span safe deployment of AI agents, multi-party workflow automation, identity, risk, and large-scale data, and because we handle sensitive financial information for businesses across the economy, trust is the product. As our first dedicated security hire, you'll define what good looks like: shaping the roadmap, embedding security into how we build, and protecting our customers and their data from day one. Since we’re an early startup, you’ll have to be prepared to wear many hats; most of your time will be spent on application and product security, but you'll also reach into cloud infrastructure, detection and response, and compliance as the work demands. Your impact will be felt across team culture, our customers, and the economy.

What You’ll Do:

- Own application and product security end to end — threat modeling, secure design and code review, and partnering with engineers to ship features that are secure by default rather than secured after the fact.
- Build the security function from the ground up: set the roadmap, establish best practices, choose the tooling, and define the standards the rest of engineering will build on.
- Find, prioritize, and drive remediation of vulnerabilities across the product and our infrastructure and build the guardrails that keep them from coming back.
- Reach across the stack as needed — cloud and infrastructure hardening (IAM, secrets, network, Kubernetes), logging, detection and incident response, and the security foundations behind compliance efforts like SOC 2.
- Make security a part of engineering culture, to help the whole team move fast but securely. Write and review high-quality code, contribute to the systems you protect, and level up the team around you.
- Use the best tools for the job. We've used technologies like Vue, GraphQL, and even built our own DSL for defining roles and permissions. What matters most is the impact you create and the risk you reduce, not the specific tools you use.

What You Bring:

- 5+ years in security engineering, with deep application/product security expertise and the range to operate across cloud, infrastructure, and detection when needed.
- A track record of building or substantially shaping a security program. You should be comfortable being the one who decides what to do first and why.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you read and write production code, and you can earn the trust of the engineers you partner with.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate technical risk clearly to engineers, to leadership, and to customers.
- A passion for internet technologies and a sharp instinct for how modern systems get attacked and defended.
- Experience working in an early-stage engineering team or a fast-growing company, solving hard, ambiguous problems with a strong bias for action.

Expected Compensation Range $200,000-$300,000

## About Nuvo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nuvo provides an AI-native order-to-cash network that automates customer onboarding, credit risk management, and accounts receivable for B2B companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $45M total raised)
- **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: B2B trade credit management, order-to-cash software, financial technology
- Target customers: B2B companies in industries such as beverage & liquor, building materials, chemicals, distribution, food service, and manufacturing (over 150,000 companies use the platform)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building the infrastructure for fluid commerce so businesses everywhere can trade and grow with unmatched confidence and speed."

## Products & Services
- **Nuvo Platform (AI-native order-to-cash network)**: A unified SaaS platform that includes customer onboarding, credit application processing, real-time credit risk insights, cash application, collections, and discrepancy resolution. Designed to replace manual forms and siloed processes with AI-powered workflows and a single source of truth for Sales, Finance, and Customers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $45M (Series A); over 150,000 companies use the platform; customers have 98% coverage by risk insights; average credit expansion per customer is $15K+
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Sequoia, Spark Capital, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, Human Capital, Susa Ventures, Index Ventures, and others (as per CBInsights)
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $45M to accelerate B2B trade; rapidly growing customer base (from 75,000 to 150,000+); team of ~99 employees with offices in San Francisco and Denver

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native agentic workflows**: Platform uses coordinated AI agents to automate onboarding, credit risk, and collections, reducing manual work and lowering DSO.
- **Speed of implementation**: Most businesses are up and running within 24 hours; no IT team required.
- **Unified data source**: Connects Sales, Finance, and Customers in real-time, breaking down silos and providing a single view of trade activity and risk.
- **Enterprise-grade flexibility**: Offers SSO, granular onboarding flows, advanced risk validations, and ERP integration.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include scaling the platform to millions of businesses, deepening AI capabilities (agentic workflows for identity, risk, trust, and payments), and expanding the network effect between buyers and suppliers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes building infrastructure for fluid commerce, transparency, and simplifying complexity. Described as "early-stage company backed by top investors."
- **Work policy**: On-site workspace at offices in San Francisco (HQ) and Denver, Colorado. Employees work from physical offices.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Opportunities to work on 0-to-1 products, AI-driven workflows, and high-ownership roles. Engineering roles include Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (customer-facing integration), and Engineering Manager. Focus on solving hard problems with modern tech stack.

## Sources
1. [nuvo.com](https://nuvo.com/) – Company homepage, product overview, customer stats
2. [nuvo.com/company](https://nuvo.com/company) – About page, mission, offices, funding announcement
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nuvo) – Office locations, headcount (99 employees), culture summary
4. [builtin.com/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/nuvo/jobs) – Job listings (Engineering Manager, Enterprise AE, Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, Founding PM)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/nuvo-2) – Founded year, total raised ($45M), investors, headquarters, industry focus

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