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title: 'Principal Security Engineer at Vibe'
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# Principal Security Engineer at Vibe

- **Company:** Vibe
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vibe/8a13f2e1-1d7d-4233-8814-c7ee918f8c9a

## Job description

Streaming TV is no longer just a brand awareness channel. It’s becoming a core part of the performance marketing mix, alongside search and social. [Vibe.co](http://Vibe.co) is building the platform that makes TV work like the rest of the acquisition stack: targeted, measurable, and optimized for results.

[Vibe.co](http://Vibe.co) is an Audience First Streaming TV Advertising platform that gives marketers the tools to reach the right audiences, optimize campaigns in real time, and understand what’s actually driving business outcomes. With hyper-targeted segmentation, AI-powered recommendations, real-time optimization, and incrementality measurement, Vibe brings the precision and accountability of digital advertising to the biggest screen in the house.

Today, more than 12,000 brands use [Vibe.co](http://Vibe.co) to reach 120 million+ households. And in August 2026, [Vibe.co](http://Vibe.co) became a Walmart company, opening up a new chapter for the business and the industry. With Walmart’s first-party data and purchase signals now part of the Vibe platform, advertisers can connect TV advertising to real-world transactions and measure the impact of CTV with a level of precision previously associated with platforms like Google and Meta.

This is a unique moment to join Vibe. With Walmart’s scale, data, and reach behind us, we’re building the next generation of TV advertising and creating a more measurable, performance-driven future for the channel.

## About the Role

You'll be Vibe's founding security hire. Security has been part of how we build since day one and we're already SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, but nobody has owned it full-time. Ad spend and headcount have both roughly doubled every year since 2022, enterprise partnerships keep expanding, and the more visible Vibe becomes, the more scrutiny comes with it. Now it needs an owner.

You'll define the risk model, set the roadmap, decide what we harden and what we accept, and turn policies into running procedures in code on the paths engineers and AI already use. That work happens in a cloud native ecosystem across AWS and GCP, with most of our services running on Kubernetes, everything as code and a GitOps deployment model.

Reporting to our, Head of Infrastructure, and joining a lean six-person Infrastructure and IT team. You won't do it alone, but you'll be the main contributor, and the person every team turns to on security. Since we joined forces with Walmart, you'll also coordinate directly with their cloud security teams.

## What You'll Do

Risk & Governance

- Map Vibe's risk model across every major system.
- Set the security roadmap with clear priorities.

Security Engineering

- Pave the road with guardrails and secure defaults enforced across the engineering tool set.
- Ship the golden paths so the safe way is the easy one.
- Harden security across our cloud native ecosystem (AWS and GCP) and third-party providers.
- Own access management from onboarding to offboarding, and get it to the point where it runs without you.

Detection & Response

- Prioritize vulnerability findings by real exposure, assign them to the team that owns the code, and follow remediation through to closure.
- Own security incident response from detection through resolution.
- Turn manual processes into pipelines that run on their own.
- Launch and run Vibe's private bug bounty program.

Trust & Compliance

- Own SOC 2 compliance end to end and maintain current certification.
- Drive Vibe's future compliance initiatives and requirements.
- Define Vibe's security posture and make it self-serve so enterprise deals clear security without routing through you.

Security Culture

- Set clear, practical rules for safe AI use, built into the tools themselves, covering both the AI we ship in our products and the AI our teams work with every day.
- Run security awareness training and measure behavior changes so the whole company raises its bar.

## What You Need

- Built a security function as a company's first security hire.
- Write code comfortably and bring deep cloud-native security experience.
- Managed a compliance framework at scale, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA.
- Managed AI security risk hands on, both in what a company ships with AI and in how its employees use it day to day.

Nice to Haves

- Ran a private bug bounty program.
- Ad tech security background, including exposure to US privacy law (CCPA/CPRA, VPPA) in a data-heavy environment.
- Navigated security through a company acquisition.

## Our Values

At Vibe, we run on three values: Impact, Ambition, and Urgency. We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions. You'll thrive here if you own outcomes without needing direction, default to action, and hold yourself to results, not effort. This is a high-performance environment with high-performance rewards: you'll work alongside people who push you, with real ownership over hard problems in a market that's moving fast. If that sounds like the best version of your career, we want to meet you.

## What We Offer

For candidates in France, the pay range for this role is €115,000-€175,000. At Vibe, we want you to build something, own something, and grow fast. Here's how we back that up:

- Variable pay — Based on real Vibe business goals.
- Hybrid flexibility — We're in the Heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week!
- Health insurance — Full coverage via Alan.
- Meal vouchers — Via Swile.
- Annual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.
- Tech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide.

Our Interview Process We respect your time. Here's exactly what to expect, no surprises, no ghosting.

- Recruiter Screen — 30 minutes. We’ll share more context on the role and team, and learn more about your background and what you’re looking for.
- Hiring Manager Interview — 45 minutes. Meet with the person you’d work with directly and dive deeper into your experience, technical background, and approach to the role.
- Technical Assessment — 90 minutes. A deeper technical conversation covering core engineering skills, problem-solving, and a technical use case relevant to the role.
- Bar Raiser Interview — 30 minutes. Meet with a senior leader at Vibe for a final conversation and an opportunity to ask any remaining questions.
- Offer — We move quickly once we’ve made a decision. We don’t let good decisions sit.

## Equal Opportunity

Vibe is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe the best ideas come from teams with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Referral Instructions Being referred? Ask your contact to submit your application directly on your behalf.

## About Vibe

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vibe.co is a self-serve connected TV (CTV) advertising platform that enables performance marketers to launch, optimize, and measure streaming TV campaigns with the same precision and accountability as digital ads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pending acquisition by Walmart; Series B funded)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (second office in Paris, France)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Arthur Querou (CEO), Franck Tetzlaff (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Advertising Technology (AdTech) – Connected TV (CTV) & Streaming TV Advertising
- Target customers: Performance marketers, ecommerce brands, SMBs, mid-market advertisers – B2B with a self-serve model
- Mission: Make streaming TV advertising as accessible, measurable, and performance-driven as paid social or search

## Products & Services
- **[Vibe Platform](https://www.vibe.co/)**: Self-serve CTV advertising platform – launch campaigns in minutes on 500+ premium channels, starting at $500 budget.
- **[Vibe Studio](https://www.vibe.co/)**: AI-powered creative tool – generate TV-ready, customizable ads in under 10 seconds at no extra cost.
- **AI Optimization**: Automatically optimizes campaign outcomes toward CPA, ROAS, and conversion goals.
- **Audience Targeting**: Uses proprietary transactional data to deliver hyper-targeted TV campaigns (similar to Instagram ad precision).
- **Integrations & API**: Connects with Klaviyo, Shopify, Google Analytics, HubSpot, Segment, Triple Whale, Northbeam, and more.
- **Measurement & Reporting**: Real-time attribution, closed-loop measurement, and cross-screen performance tracking.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private; acquisition terms by Walmart not disclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated between $25M–$50M (LinkedIn) | Total Funding $78.85M across three rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hedosophia (Series B lead), Singular (Series A lead), Elaia (seed). Partners include Magnite, Yahoo DSP, Google DV360, and major supply-side platforms.
- **Growth Signals**: 10,000+ performance marketers on the platform; $50M Series B raised in September 2025; 133 employees (+37.6% YoY); 2.5x average ROAS; operating in 10 countries; acquired by Walmart (announced June 23, 2026, expected close by end of 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Self-serve, performance-first CTV**: Unlike traditional TV buying, Vibe’s platform is built for digital marketers with full control, instant activation, no agencies or middlemen.
- **Proprietary transactional data**: Enables precise audience targeting and attribution that rivals digital ad channels.
- **Deep integrations**: Seamless connection to leading ecommerce and marketing analytics tools (Klaviyo, Segment, Shopify, etc.) for real-time data and optimization.
- **AI-driven creative and optimization**: Lowers barrier to entry for TV ads (Vibe Studio) and automates performance tuning.
- **Walmart ecosystem access**: Post-acquisition, Vibe will be part of Walmart Connect, leveraging Walmart’s commerce audiences, closed-loop measurement, and VIZIO’s CTV footprint.

## Strategic Focus
- **Integration with Walmart Connect**: Combine Vibe’s self-serve CTV platform with Walmart’s commerce media capabilities to make TV advertising accessible and measurable for SMBs and mid-market advertisers.
- **Full-funnel advertising**: Expand beyond performance marketing to support brand awareness and consideration, while maintaining closed-loop measurement.
- **Open ecosystem**: Continue partnerships with broadcasters, SSPs, and measurement providers, not limit advertiser choice.
- **Scale AI capabilities**: Further develop AI optimization and automated creative tools.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid workspace**: Employees work in-office 3 days a week with flexibility; hybrid-by-design culture (NYC and Paris offices).
- **Culture & ratings**: 4.1/5 on Built In (42 reviews) – Work-Life 4.1, Compensation 4.0, Culture 3.9, Career 3.8.
- **Engineering stack**: Modern tech – Rust, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Amplitude, etc. Strong engineering team (30+ technical staff).
- **Growth stage**: Rapidly scaling company (37.6% headcount growth YoY) with recent $50M Series B and Walmart acquisition providing stability and resources.
- **Diverse team**: Operations in 10 countries, departments spanning Sales, Engineering, Product, Marketing, People Operations.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive compensation, opportunity to shape CTV advertising at a company that’s redefining the channel.

## Sources
1. [vibe.co](https://www.vibe.co/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/vibedotco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vibedotco)
3. [builtin.com/company/vibeco](https://builtin.com/company/vibeco)
4. [vibe.co/blog/whats-new/walmart-agrees-to-acquire-vibe](https://www.vibe.co/blog/whats-new/walmart-agrees-to-acquire-vibe)

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