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title: 'Security Engineer at Gamma'
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# Security Engineer at Gamma

- **Company:** Gamma
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$310k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-11-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Gamma/79b3efcd-0380-41bc-9556-bc7c681adc43/application

**Skills:** AWS, IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, OWASP Top 10, CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, SIEM, Log Analysis, Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, AI/ML Security Tooling, Zero Trust Architecture, FIDO2

> Build security tooling and automation to protect Gamma's platform and infrastructure as it scales. The role involves designing security controls, conducting architecture reviews, leading vulnerability management, and integrating security into the development lifecycle using AI-assisted scanning and secure-by-design...

## Job description

## WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS NOW

AI is fundamentally changing the cybersecurity landscape. Frontier AI models are rapidly reducing the time, resources, and skill required to find and exploit software vulnerabilities.

This works both ways: defenders who adopt AI tools can move just as fast. At Gamma, we believe security engineering must evolve to meet this moment. That means closing patch gaps faster, scanning our own code with the same frontier models an attacker would use, designing systems that hold even when an adversary has unlimited patience, and building incident response capabilities that can handle simultaneous, AI-accelerated threats.

You’ll be building Gamma’s security posture for the age of AI-driven offense and defense. If you’re excited about leveraging AI to protect infrastructure at scale, this is the role.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

You’ll protect Gamma’s platform, infrastructure, and data as we scale to serve hundreds of millions of users. That means building security tooling and automation, partnering with engineering teams to embed security into everything we ship, and helping shape how the company thinks about security as a practice. You’ll work across the organization to identify and mitigate risks without slowing down development velocity.

This role combines hands-on security engineering with strategic influence. You’ll write code to solve security problems, conduct architecture reviews, lead vulnerability management, and drive initiatives for compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and compliance to make security foundational rather than reactive.

Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design and implement security controls across Gamma’s AWS infrastructure and application layer
- Build security tooling and automation to detect, prevent, and respond to threats at scale
- Conduct security reviews of architecture designs, code, and infrastructure changes
- Lead vulnerability management, coordinate bug bounty responses, and drive remediation priorities
- Develop and maintain security monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities
- Partner with engineering teams on secure coding practices and threat modeling
- Deploy AI-assisted vulnerability scanning across our codebase and infrastructure—scanning our own systems with frontier models before attackers do
- Build automated triage workflows that use AI to deduplicate findings, estimate exposure, and draft remediation tickets
- Drive adoption of memory-safe languages and secure-by-design practices for new code, informed by current CISA and NCSC guidance

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2–3 years focused on security engineering or application security
- Strong hands-on experience securing AWS environments, including IAM, VPC, security groups, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Go preferred) with experience building security tools
- Deep understanding of web application security including OWASP Top 10, common vulnerability classes, and authentication/authorization patterns, with experience implementing security controls in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Clear communicator who works well embedded with product engineering teams
- Background in penetration testing, offensive security, and SIEM/log analysis

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience at a high-growth SaaS startup navigating rapid scaling and compliance
- Familiarity with AI/ML security tooling, including using frontier models for code scanning, automated pentesting, or threat detection
- Experience building zero trust architecture or identity-aware access controls (FIDO2, short-lived tokens, hardware-bound credentials)
- Knowledge of supply chain security frameworks like SLSA, OpenSSF Scorecard, or SBOM tooling

## COMPENSATION RANGE:

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $180K - $310K plus benefits & equity.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.

If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.

## About Gamma

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered productivity software / presentation and content creation
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual creators, professionals) and B2B (teams, enterprises)
- **Mission statement**: “We build tools for imagination” – making it easy for anyone to share ideas beautifully and quickly without design or communication expertise.

## Products & Services
- **Presentations**: Turn any idea or outline into a polished slide deck; export to PPT, PDF, Google Slides, and more.
- **Documents**: Create structured, visual documents (one-pagers, white papers) with AI assistance.
- **Websites**: Generate a shareable, hosted website in minutes – no coding required.
- **Social Media**: Produce platform-ready social content sized and styled for posting.
- **Graphics**: AI design agent for creating custom, on-brand graphics, infographics, and illustrations.
- **API**: Programmatic creation for automation, integration, and scaling content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2.1B (as of 2026, per company about page)
- **Key Metric**: $100M+ annual recurring revenue (ARR); 100 million total users; over 1 million creations per day
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (likely venture-backed given valuation)
- **Growth Signals**: Achieved profitability in 2023; rapid user adoption (100M users); expanding from presentations into websites, social, and API; strong B2C viral growth with growing B2B enterprise traction.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for AI collaboration, not retrofitted.
- **Multi-format versatility**: One platform for presentations, documents, websites, social posts, and graphics – reducing tool sprawl.
- **Viral B2C love + massive B2B opportunity**: Millions of individual users drive organic adoption into enterprises.
- **Profitable growth**: Profitable since 2023 while still scaling rapidly, demonstrating unit economics.

## Strategic Focus
- **Disrupting the presentation market**: Replacing legacy tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides) with an AI-first experience.
- **Expanding the creative layer**: Moving beyond presentations to become the default tool for all modern communication (documents, websites, social).
- **Enterprise go-to-market**: Building on viral B2C adoption to capture B2B contracts with features like brand controls, team collaboration, and API integrations.
- **Continuous AI innovation**: Leveraging 20+ AI models and constant iteration to improve output quality and creative capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity” – a team of dreamers and doers that ships constantly.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/on-site presence in San Francisco (primary hub) and New York; many roles listed as “San Francisco” or “New York” with on-site expectation; some remote flexibility may exist for certain roles.
- **Notable perks**: Being part of a profitable, high-growth unicorn; working on a product used by 100M people; opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered communication.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on AI, data science, and product design; roles include AI Engineer, Research Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and UI Engineer.

## Sources
1. [Gamma About Page](https://gamma.app/about)
2. [Gamma Careers Page](https://careers.gamma.app/)
3. [Gamma Job Listings (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma)
4. [Gamma Product Pages](https://gamma.app/?lng=en)
5. [Gamma Team Page](https://team.gamma.app/)

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