About Farsight

Farsight is the agentic AI platform for financial services, currently helping investment banks and private equity firms fully automate entire, highly nuanced workflows. Today, institutions will spend 80% of their time gathering information for and creating first drafts of materials by hand before iterating on and refining their decks, models, and pitches. We not only give them that time back to focus on what is important, but we also bring new insights and knowledge to their materials that they wouldn’t be able to uncover without the help of our financial-focused AI.

We work with an immense amount of both public and private data, delivering highly accurate and auditable materials in an arena far too nuanced for large-scale AI out of the box. Oftentimes, our product generates outputs that outperform the work of existing employees, resulting in quotes from our customers like:

• “I’m more than willing to let my analysts never use Powerpoint again.”

• “There is not a second year associate on the planet that can do this as well as you have.”

Our mission is to upend the way financial services work in corporations gets done, effectively integrating AI into the financial needlework of every company on Earth.

Team

We are a small, highly motivated team that is driven by creating technology that amazes. Each one of us wears many different skillset hats, whether that be development, sales, infrastructure, design, product innovation, and more - and we expect those coming in to have the experience or the motivation to wear just as many.

Our team has had a wide range of work experiences that have led us to be the fast growing startup we are. We have gained financial domain knowledge from Evercore and General Atlantic, gained scalable engineering skills from big tech like Amazon, learned enterprise AI sales from Hugging Face, and have learned the ins and outs of building successful startups from previous work as founders and founding engineers. We focus on hiring the best so that we can become the best, so we hope you apply!

We are entirely based in Manhattan, New York City, and are in-person preferred (except Fridays, which are remote).

Job Description

As Farsight AI's Cloud Security Engineer, you will be foundational in building our security posture from the ground up as we scale into enterprise financial customers. Working closely with our infrastructure team, you'll architect and implement security systems that protect our AI platform and the sensitive financial data we process, while enabling our engineers to move quickly and securely.

This is a unique opportunity to establish security practices at a high-growth fintech startup handling some of the most sensitive data in financial services. You'll own the security roadmap and build the infrastructure that will scale with us as we bring AI to every financial institution on Earth.

You will:

Build Security Foundations

• Design and implement cloud security architecture across our infrastructure, establishing secure-by-default patterns for our engineering teams

• Develop and maintain security controls for our AWS environment, including IAM policies, network segmentation, encryption, and logging

• Build infrastructure-as-code (CDK, SST, Pulumi) with built-in security guardrails that make the secure path the easy path for developers

• Implement secrets management, encryption, and authentication/authorization frameworks to protect sensitive financial data

Enable Compliance and Enterprise Sales

• Drive our compliance initiatives including CCPA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 certifications to complement our existing SOC 2 Type II

• Automate collection of control evidence and maintain continuous compliance through infrastructure-as-code

• Conduct security audits of cloud resources and remediate deviations from CIS Benchmarks and internal security policies

• Partner with sales and customer success teams to address enterprise security requirements and questionnaires

Detect and Respond to Threats

• Deploy cloud-native detection capabilities using AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, and custom detection rules

• Monitor systems for security threats including credential compromise, unauthorized access, and anomalous behavior

• Participate in security on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts

• Build automated security monitoring and alerting systems tailored to financial services threat models

Secure Development and AI Workloads

• Partner with engineering teams to embed security into development workflows and CI/CD pipelines

• Implement supply chain security controls including artifact signing, secret scanning, and dependency monitoring

• Develop security controls specific to AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines handling sensitive financial information

• Apply defence-in-depth principles across internal systems and cloud environments

Scale Security with the Organization

• Educate employees on security best practices and promote a security awareness culture across the company

• Create documentation, runbooks, and training materials for security processes

• Mentor engineers on secure software design and architecture patterns

• Identify and drive out inefficiencies in security processes through automation and tooling
  

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud security engineering, infrastructure security, or related roles

• Deep hands-on experience securing AWS environments, including IAM, VPC design, encryption, and security services

• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly AWS CDK

• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages

• Understanding of modern attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures relevant to cloud environments

• Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar)

Ideal Qualifications

• Experience securing financial services applications or handling sensitive financial data

• Background in securing AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines

• Familiarity with security controls for SaaS applications and identity providers (Okta, Google Workspace, etc.)

• Experience with security monitoring tools, SIEM systems, and threat detection

• Knowledge of zero trust architecture and implementation

• Strong communication skills with ability to explain security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Track record of building security programs at early-stage or high-growth startups

• Contributions to the security community through open source, blogging, or conference presentations

What Sets You Apart

• Pragmatic and business-oriented approach—you balance security rigor with enabling rapid product development

• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced startup environment

• Empathetic communication style and collaborative mindset

• Passion for building rather than just auditing—you write code and create systems, not just policies

• Excitement about AI technology and its application to security challenges

• Comfort wearing multiple hats and tackling problems outside your core expertise

Compensation & Benefits

Salary ranges between $180,000 and $230,000 annually depending on the level of experience of the applicant. Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with unlimited PTO are included in the benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Farsight is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.