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title: 'Security Engineer at Giga'
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# Security Engineer at Giga

- **Company:** Giga
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $210k–$350k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gigaml/b5a48fee-24dd-4123-a216-da63a196e6e1

## Job description

## About Giga

Giga has recently raised a $61M Series A and has several paying customers, including DoorDash. We’re building the next generation of customer experience — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world’s largest enterprises. It’s an exciting inflection point for the company. While we have been successful, we have larger ambitions. Our goal is to become the go-to AI platform for all enterprise automation, powered by our voice superintelligence. To achieve this, we need more great engineers. The work affects millions of people every day and our engineers have autonomy and make true impact. This opportunity is unique because we have brilliant founders, have found commercial success, and see a clear path to becoming a generational company. Some further info about us:

- [Voice AI startup Giga raises $61M Series A](https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/voice-ai-giga-raise-61-million-customer-service-series-a/)
- [DoorDash and Giga Partnership](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391576181009018883/)

Giga builds AI agents trusted by the largest B2C companies in the world. Industry leaders like DoorDash trust Giga with their most complex support and operations workflows across voice, chat, and email. If being a part of this resonates with you, please apply!

## The Role

We're looking for a security engineer to build the systems and practices that keep our platform and our customers' data safe. Our AI agents handle sensitive customer interactions at scale, which means security isn't a side concern here. It's core to the product. This is a hands-on engineering role, not a compliance-checklist role. You'll write code, build tooling, and design systems while also shaping how the rest of the team thinks about security. You'll be the person who makes it easy to build things securely, not the person who slows everyone down.

## What You'll Work On

A few examples from our current priorities:

- Application security: Securing the platform end-to-end, from the APIs our customers use to configure agents to the systems that handle real-time conversations and customer data
- Access controls and authorization: Building role-based access controls, permissions models, and audit logging so our enterprise customers can manage their teams with confidence
- Security tooling and automation: Building the infrastructure for vulnerability scanning, dependency auditing, secrets management, and automated detection so security scales with the team

As a senior security engineer, you'll own security across the stack and have significant influence over how we architect systems. You'll work closely with backend and infrastructure engineers to make sure security is baked into our platform from the start.

Tech Stack

- Backend: Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js)
- Infrastructure: AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres
- Tooling: Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines

You Might Be a Fit If You

- Have 4+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong software engineering foundation
- Have secured production systems handling sensitive data and understand the difference between theoretical risks and real ones
- Can write production-quality code, not just review it: you'll build security tooling and features, not just file tickets
- Think about security as an enabler, not a blocker: you make it easy for other engineers to do the right thing
- Are comfortable across application security, infrastructure security, and cloud security
- Are excited about the unique security challenges of AI agents: prompt injection, data leakage, and problems that don't have established playbooks yet

## Perks & Benefits

- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Giga is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Giga

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Giga builds enterprise AI voice agents that handle complex customer interactions with unmatched speed and scale, giving time back to humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, ~$61M raised in August 2025 led by Redpoint)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (some sources list 2024; conflicting reports)
- **Founders**: Esha Dinne (CTO) and Varun Vummadi (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Customer Support Automation / Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprises (e.g., DoorDash)
- **Mission**: “To save people time” – reprogram the world’s largest companies using AI, reaching every human on the planet.

## Products & Services
- **[AI Voice Agents]**: Enterprise-grade AI support agents that handle complex customer interactions with human-like intelligence, available as a SaaS platform or on-premise deployment.
- **[Guardrails]**: Built-in hallucination checks to ensure accuracy, with automatic fallback to human support when needed.
- **[Progressive Automation]**: Gradual automation of support workflows with performance metrics to identify automation opportunities.
- **[Insights]**: AI-powered analytics that detect customer churn drivers and highlight improvement areas.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$64.7M** (Seed rounds totaling ~$3.7M, plus Series A of $61M in August 2025); estimated annual revenue of **$1M** (LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Nexus Venture Partners (Seed lead), Eight Capital, Redpoint (Series A lead), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+537.5% YoY** to 50 employees; customer win with DoorDash; 40+ open positions across engineering, sales, and operations; LinkedIn followers grew **+411.7% YoY** to over 30,000.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed and scale**: Claims to ship faster than competitors while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.
- **Human-like AI**: Pioneering voice AI that has “never been perfected in tech history” – a technically challenging moat.
- **Customer obsession**: Deep focus on solving real customer problems, evidenced by high-profile enterprise adoption.
- **On-premise option**: Offers secure on-premise LLM deployment for data-sensitive enterprises, a differentiator vs. pure cloud solutions.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale enterprise voice AI across the world’s largest companies.
- Continue rapid hiring (especially in engineering, sales, and strategy/operations).
- Push the boundaries of reasoning AI for voice interactions.
- Build a culture of speed, ownership, and craft excellence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer obsession, operating with speed, deep care for craft, pushing boundaries, and taking ownership. Employees have high agency and are encouraged to experiment.
- **Work environment**: On-site in San Francisco (2 offices); typical time on-site is “none” but employees work from physical offices (hybrid flexibility implied).
- **Perks**: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage; Equinox gym membership; in-office ping-pong and pool table; on-demand snacks, coffee, and DoorDash credits; after-hours transportation reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on quality, detail, and shipping fast. 18 technical team members (36% of workforce). Open roles include Staff Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, and AI/ML positions.
- **Growth opportunity**: High-growth startup (revenue and headcount scaling rapidly) with mission-driven work that impacts millions of customers.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/giga-gigamlcom) – Company overview, size, offices, culture
2. [giga.ai/careers](https://giga.ai/careers) – Official careers page, values, benefits, open roles
3. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/giga-ml) – Funding, products, founders, headquarters
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/giga) – YC profile, founding date, team size, latest news
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gigaml) – Employee count, revenue, funding, growth metrics, open positions
6. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com) (referenced in YC news) – $61M raise and DoorDash partnership

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