1001 AI — Security Engineer (P2)
About 1001 AI: AI-native OS for MENA heavy industries (aviation, construction, ports, energy). Lux Capital / General Catalyst / CIV backed. Engineering team mostly ex-Scale AI / Palantir. Locations: London + Doha + Dubai + Abu Dhabi.
One-line pitch: First dedicated security hire. Owns security across product and infra, and runs the security conversations with enterprise customers.
Responsibilities:
- Own security across product, infrastructure, cloud environments, and corporate systems beyond what the engineering team can cover at a surface level
- Manage and secure company-wide SaaS and workspace accounts, including Google Workspace, Microsoft, Slack, GitHub, cloud accounts, identity providers, password managers, device policies, and access controls
- Establish strong internal security practices for 1001 as a company
- Lead customer-facing security reviews, questionnaires, and procurement conversations with enterprise security teams
- Define and implement security controls, threat models, and policies
- Build secure-by-default patterns into the platform and deployment workflows
- Drive compliance work (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / regional equivalents)
- Respond to security incidents, investigate risks, and put preventative controls in place
Requirements:
- 5+ years in security engineering, with significant time in product or cloud security at a B2B / enterprise SaaS company
- Can break things, not just write policies
- Strong with cloud security (AWS / GCP / Azure), application security, identity and access
- Comfortable and credible in customer-facing security and compliance conversations
- Hands-on, ships the controls themselves
- Comfortable with hybrid / on-prem / sovereign cloud enterprise deployments
Bonus:
- AI-specific risk experience (data handling, model and prompt security, agentic systems)
- Prior enterprise deployment exposure
Pedigree priority: Palantir security, Snowflake security, Datadog security, GitHub security, Cloudflare security, HashiCorp security, Stripe security, Anthropic security, OpenAI security, Scale AI security, 1Password security engineering (NOT SA/SE), Auth0 / Okta engineering, Vanta, Drata, top YC AI security startups.
Exclusions: Big-4 consultancy security, training/instructor profiles, PM-track profiles, Solutions Architect titles.
Note: round 1+2 surfaced zero candidates from the top B2B SaaS security teams. If pedigree filter is binding, may need to flex geo (e.g., open to SF/NYC relocators) — recruiter call.
Locations: London, Doha, Dubai, or Abu Dhabi.