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Weekly Commitment

20 hrs

Compensation Range

$175 - $225 / hr

Company Stage

Growth-stage VC

Industry

insurtech

Location

Remote (USA or Canada only)
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About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: appsec, infrasec

Budget: $175-$225/h

Hours per week: 20

Term: 6+ months

Location: U.S and Canada

Working hours: 5+ hours overlap with ET

Start date: Immediate

Company stage: Series B

Context:

We're working with a hypergrowth ai startup in the insurance space.

They're looking for a security focused engineer who can come in and help them prioritize, expand, and execute a backlog of application- and infra-related security items. Bonus points if you're able to help them reason through IT-related security concerns or controls at the organization level.

They're running ruby, python, typescript and a bit of go. They're on AWS, expanding into Azure right now, and expect to be on GCP as well by EOY. For compliance, they need to observer SOC2 and Hipaa but no other regulatory frameworks atm.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have appsec experience
  • You have infrasec experience
  • You have staff+ xp
  • You have 8+ years xp

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