Senior DevSecOps Engineer
ABOUT US
We’re a startup with big ambitions: to make estate planning modern, visual, and intelligent. Vanilla is the first AI-powered estate advisory platform, built by advisors, planners, and attorneys to transform how wealth is transferred across generations. Our technology unifies scenario modeling, client visualization, and document creation into one seamless, digital experience.
Our team brings together diverse subject matter expertise across estate planning, wealth management, and scaling SaaS startups. We’re distributed across the U.S., with a mix of fully remote and hybrid roles, and we embrace flexibility while staying closely connected. At Vanilla, you’ll join curious builders and problem-solvers who thrive on speed, autonomy, and impact. Here, you won’t just join a company, you’ll help create it. If you’re excited to tackle hard problems, move quickly, and see your work shape both an industry and a growing startup, we’d love to meet you.
WORKING LOCATION
This role is a remote position, you must be based out of one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah or Washington.
JOB SUMMARY
We’re looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own and operate our security tooling, manage key vendor relationships, and drive our application and cloud security programs forward. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role: you’ll be the day-to-day operator of our security stack, the point person for our vCISO engagement, and the engineer building the processes that keep Vanilla’s platform and infrastructure secure.
You’ll also own the operational cadence of our security program: managing vendor-led pen tests, running tabletop exercises, maintaining our incident response playbook, and building a multi-quarter security roadmap.
This role is ideal for a strong DevOps or infrastr...