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# Staff Software Engineer, Security at Gradial

- **Company:** Gradial
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gradial/jobs/4430768009

## Job description

Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.

Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.

## The Role

As Gradial’s first dedicated security engineer, you’ll join as a Staff Software Engineer, Security and own product and platform security end to end, shaping how we design, build and operate secure agentic systems as we scale.

This is a deeply hands-on Staff IC role where you’ll set the technical direction for security, build the systems and controls that matter most and partner closely with engineering as our platform and customer base grow. You’ll work alongside our IT and compliance lead, who owns GRC and corporate IT, and have significant autonomy to determine where security investment will have the greatest impact.

## What You’ll Own

- Define and drive Gradial’s product and platform security strategy, prioritizing investments against the risks that matter most as we scale.
- Lead threat modeling for our agentic platform and design protections across agent behavior, permissions, isolation, customer data and platform boundaries.
- Harden our application and cloud infrastructure across production access, IAM, secrets management and the CI/CD supply chain.
- Partner with engineering to build secure-by-default patterns into how agents, services and infrastructure are designed and shipped.
- Own security detection and incident response for the platform, including logging standards, detection coverage and response processes.
- Represent technical security in enterprise customer reviews and architecture discussions, translating our approach clearly to customer security teams.
- Own the technical controls that support SOC 2 in partnership with our IT and compliance lead, ensuring controls are effective in practice as our systems evolve.
- Help shape the future of security at Gradial, including identifying where we need additional capabilities and helping hire future security team members.

## What We Need

- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, including Principal or Staff-level ownership across complex production systems.
- Deep product security experience across threat modeling, secure architecture, authentication and authorization and multi-tenant systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud security, Kubernetes, IAM and infrastructure as code.
- A strong technical point of view on securing LLM and agent-based systems, with the ability to reason about emerging risks from first principles.
- Experience leading security incident response for production services and improving systems based on what you learn.
- A track record of writing and shipping production code, security tooling or infrastructure, not just reviewing the work of others.
- Strong judgment and comfort making pragmatic security tradeoffs in fast-moving environments without an established playbook.
- Clear communication with engineers, company leadership and enterprise customer security teams.

## Nice to Have

- Experience as an early security hire at a high-growth B2B SaaS, AI or infrastructure company.
- Experience building security detections, telemetry and logging pipelines in cloud environments.
- Experience implementing technical controls for SOC 2 or ISO 27001, or contributing to AI security research, standards or open-source security tooling.

The salary range for this position is $200,000 – $240,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.

## What we offer

- Performance-based annual bonus
- Meaningful equity awards
- Medical, dental & vision (fully covered for employees with 75% for dependents)
- Fertility & family-planning support
- 401k plan
- Unlimited PTO
- A beautiful Seattle office with a gym, sauna, and bike parking
- Free lunch three days a week in our HQ
- A front-row seat to building category-defining AI infrastructure

You'll thrive here if you

- Learn quickly, actively seek out new challenges, and regularly reconsider “how it’s always been done.”
- Want to have real impact with zero bureaucracy.
- Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.
- Embrace AI as a core tool for problem-solving, innovation, and scale.
- Show customer-obsession (internal or external), high ownership/accountability, and bias for action.
- Communicate clearly, directly, with curiosity, and assuming good intentions.
- Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.

AI Literacy & Interviewing Tools

As an AI-first company, we prioritize AI literacy as a core competency in our hiring decisions. We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.

Gradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. We offer competitive compensation, equity, flexible work hours, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on learning and impact.

## About Gradial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gradial provides an agentic marketing operations platform that automates campaign execution, content assembly, and brand governance for large enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, last funding $65M)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise marketing technology (MarTech)
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises (B2B, B2C) – examples include T-Mobile, AWS, Prudential, Avalara
- **Mission/purpose**: “Enable marketing at the speed of thought” – turning fragmented marketing execution into a governed operating system so enterprise teams can move from strategy to live work with speed, visibility, and control.

## Products & Services
- **Gradial Platform**: An agentic operating system for marketing operations. Agents handle authoring, QA, tagging, assembly, and execution of campaigns (landing pages, PDPs, emails, etc.). Includes built-in brand compliance, accessibility checks, and governance. Supports personalization at scale and optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Latest funding round – $65M Series C (raised in 2026). Prior total funding reported as $53.4M (likely including earlier rounds).
- **Notable Investors**: Madrona Venture Group, PruVen Capital, VMG Partners, Insight Partners, General Advance, and six others.
- **Growth Signals**: Strong enterprise customer logos (T-Mobile, AWS, Prudential, Avalara); 24 open job postings across Engineering, Product, Revenue, and Delivery teams; named a leader in a competitive landscape including Braze, Zeta Global, and Jasper.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic execution layer** that automates high-volume, high-risk marketing work without requiring a full stack rebuild.
- **Governance-first design** – brand compliance and accessibility checks run automatically on every execution.
- **Trusted by top-tier enterprises** – AWS uses it as a “control tower”; T-Mobile modernized campaign launches; Prudential enables personalization at scale.
- **Speed and scalability** – teams increase throughput without adding headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale adoption among large enterprises by deepening integrations and expanding agent capabilities for performance marketing, content updates, and asset management.
- Continue building the “system of work” that makes marketing execution faster, cleaner, and more governable.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Pragmatic AI, care for craft (quality and intentionality), end-to-end ownership, clarity under pressure, execution first, and systems that compound.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (Seattle office at 2505 2nd Avenue) and remote roles available across the US. Many engineering roles are Seattle-based; some Forward Deployed and Sales roles are remote.
- **Engineering culture**: Building “frontier systems for enterprise execution” – emphasis on product craft, applied AI, and solving complex workflow problems at scale.
- **Team structure**: Small-but-growing company – 24 open roles span Applied AI, Platform, Infrastructure, Forward Deployed, and Product Design. Opportunity for high ownership and impact.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the focus on “clarity under pressure” and “compounding systems” suggests a structured, high-autonomy environment.

## Sources
1. [Gradial Website](https://www.gradial.com/)
2. [Gradial About Page](https://www.gradial.com/about)
3. [CBInsights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/gradial)
4. [Gradial Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gradial/jobs/4260900009)

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