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# Security Engineer at HeyGen

- **Company:** HeyGen
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / Palo Alto, CA / Toronto, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/heygen/jobs/5174700007

## Job description

## About HeyGen

At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences. Learn more at [www.heygen.com](https://www.heygen.com).  Visit our Mission and Culture doc [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JQ6k6Ce8VRE60zO09Uc94JVaxRWA2xC1-IbIFAAHPvs/edit?usp=sharing).

Position Summary

As a Security Engineer at HeyGen, you will own the security posture of one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. You will partner directly with engineering teams to ship secure features, harden our cloud infrastructure, and build the compliance and trust programs that unlock enterprise deals. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for an engineer who thinks in threat models and ships code.

## Key Responsibilities

- Product & Infrastructure Security: Partner with engineering teams as an embedded security expert — writing code, reviewing architectures, and building secure application features and infrastructure components from the ground up.
- Fraud Detection & Remediation: Design and implement automated fraud detection systems to mitigate platform abuse, credential stuffing, and payment fraud. Partner with product and engineering to build real-time monitoring and rapid-response remediation workflows.
- Cloud & Vulnerability Management: Own the strategy and execution for hardening our AWS/Python infrastructure. Build and run a robust vulnerability management program, including network security, cloud configuration, and remediation workflows.
- AI Security: Serve as HeyGen's point person for AI and agentic system security. As we scale our agentic coding and AI agent products, you will ensure these rollouts are designed and deployed with strong security controls.
- GRC & Compliance: Oversee our SOC 2 compliance operations (currently managed via Drata) and annual audit cycles. Evaluate and roadmap future certifications, including ISO 27001, as the business scales.
- Trust & Safety Oversight: Provide high-level oversight for platform abuse and content moderation (in partnership with growth and avatar teams), and serve as the escalation point for IT security incidents.

## Qualifications

- Strong software engineering background with hands-on Python and AWS experience; you write code, not just policies.
- Demonstrated experience securing cloud infrastructure and applications — vulnerability management, network security, IAM, and secrets management.
- Familiarity with GRC frameworks and compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent).
- Excellent communication skills: able to translate threat models for engineers, compliance requirements for auditors, and security architecture for enterprise CISOs.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid scale; you prioritize ruthlessly and know when to build vs. buy.
- Experience with modern security tooling is a plus (Drata, Infisical, Bugcrowd, or equivalents).

Why HeyGen:

- Massive Scale, Unique Problems: We are protecting user identity at one of the fastest growth rates in SaaS history. The security engineering challenges here are genuinely novel.
- Speed with Guardrails: Our security philosophy is not about saying "no." It is about building guardrails that let the engineering team ship fast without introducing unacceptable risk.
- Mature Tooling from Day One: We already run Drata for GRC, Infisical for secrets management, and a private bug bounty program via Bugcrowd. You are not starting from zero.
- Autonomy and Ownership: You will have the visibility and resources to shape HeyGen's entire security roadmap. Small team, big mandate.

## About HeyGen

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HeyGen is an AI-powered video generation platform that lets users create photorealistic avatars and multi-language videos from a simple script.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $60M round raised in June 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Joshua Xu, Wayne Liang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Video Generation
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises, marketing teams) and B2C (content creators, individuals)
- **Mission**: “Empower individuals through accessible AI video generation” and “Free your story.”

## Products & Services
- **HeyGen Platform**: SaaS for AI video creation – users input a script, choose an avatar/voice, and generate a realistic talking-head video. Supports over 175 languages and dialects for dubbing and lip-sync translation. Includes a library of pre-made avatars and the ability to clone one’s own likeness (with consent).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $500 million as of June 2024 (via Bloomberg)
- **Key Metrics**: Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) was $35M as of June 2024; the company’s own careers page now states “$150M+ ARR” as of 2025/2026. Over 30 million users, 146+ million videos generated, 121+ million avatars created, and 20+ million videos translated.
- **Notable Investors**: Benchmark, Conviction, Bond Capital, Thrive Capital, HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), ZhenFund
- **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount grew from ~25 in November 2023 to 150+ globally by 2025. Recognized by Fast Company’s “Next Big Things in Tech” (2024) and Inc.’s “Best in Business” (2024). Expanded to offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Toronto, and Singapore.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology moat**: Photorealistic avatars with accurate lip-syncing and real-time multilingual dubbing.
- **Ease of use**: Requires no camera, studio, or technical skills – just a script.
- **Strong backing**: Top-tier venture capital firms provide credibility and runway for R&D.
- **Scale**: Rapid adoption (30M users) and growing enterprise customer base.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening enterprise integrations and expanding into new verticals (e.g., marketing, training, entertainment).
- Improving avatar realism and ethical AI safeguards (consent verification, content moderation).
- Global expansion through multilingual capabilities and regional offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes creativity, innovation, and work-life balance. Annual company retreats (2024 in San Diego, 2025 in Las Vegas, 2026 location TBD).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Most engineering and product roles are on-site in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Toronto, or Singapore. Some roles (e.g., Social Content Creator, Commercial Account Executive – Europe) are remote.
- **Perks**:
  - Flexible paid time off (unlimited vacation and sick days, plus year-end company shutdown)
  - Daily catered lunches (dinner optional)
  - $200 monthly commuter benefit
  - 401(k) with 4% company match
  - Equity grants for all employees
  - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance (including life and AD&D)
  - Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  - Performance bonuses (cash and equity)
  - Relocation bonus for moving to the Bay Area
  - Continuous education opportunities

## Sources
1. [Wikipedia – HeyGen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeyGen)
2. [heygen.com – About page](https://www.heygen.com/about)
3. [heygen.com – Careers page](https://www.heygen.com/careers)
4. [Greenhouse – HeyGen jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/heygen)

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