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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
Monstro is a governed AI platform for regulated financial institutions. We give banks and wealth managers a way to deliver trusted advice digitally — to every client, not just the top tier.
Institutions already have the relationships, data, and context to understand each client. Monstro turns that understanding into advice. It gives every client the experience of a personal advisor: bringing together their full financial picture, identifying what matters, and delivering personalized guidance across investments, tax, retirement, insurance, legal, and more.
For clients, that means clearer decisions, proactive support when life changes, and a better view of their financial lives. For institutions, it means deeper relationships, more clients served consistently, and more of each client's financial life managed in one place.
What makes this possible is how the system is built. Every recommendation reflects the institution's own views, policies, and permissions. Every output is auditable, traceable, and reversible, and client data stays under the institution's control. Generative AI shapes how advice is designed; at runtime, execution is deterministic — so every output can be explained and stood behind, not just trusted.
The work
We are building for a high-stakes industry where the work has real consequences. The challenge is to make advice more personal and more available without making it less trusted — to build AI that institutions can audit, explain, and reverse, in a domain where being wrong carries real cost. That is a hard problem, and it is the reason to be here.
You will work on technology that brings real financial advice to people who have rarely had access to it. You will be expected to think clearly, move with urgency, hold a high bar, and take responsibility for work that matters. We are an early team building something ambitious, and what you do here will shape both the product and the company.
We're looking for a Senior Platform Security Engineer to help build and secure the infrastructure that powers Monstro's AI platform. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on creating reliable, scalable, and secure systems while embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle.
You'll sit at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, security operations, and compliance. Your mission is to build and maintain scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure that enables engineering teams to move quickly with confidence. Alongside building and securing our platform, you'll help mature the controls, processes, and evidence required to support compliance initiatives such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as Monstro continues to scale. Working with financial institutions requires a high bar for security, governance, and operational resilience, and you'll play a critical role in ensuring our infrastructure meets those expectations without compromising engineering velocity.
As we continue to scale our platform and expand our regulated AI infrastructure, you'll play a key role in designing deployment pipelines, automating infrastructure, strengthening security controls, and driving operational excellence across our cloud environments. You'll help build the technical foundations that allow Monstro to remain secure, compliant, and audit-ready while supporting the rapid development and deployment of AI-powered products.
This is not a role where security operates separately from engineering. We believe the strongest security posture is built into the platform from day one. You'll work closely with software engineers, product teams, and leadership to establish DevSecOps practices that support both innovation and trust.
Security is a strategic priority at Monstro. As a company building infrastructure for financial institutions, we operate in an environment where trust, resilience, and compliance are foundational to our success. This role will have meaningful visibility and influence across the organization, helping shape the systems, controls, and operational practices that protect both our platform and our customers while enabling engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
No two days look the same. You may be improving Kubernetes deployment workflows in the morning, responding to a security alert in the afternoon, helping prepare evidence for a compliance review, and designing infrastructure improvements that reduce operational risk before the day is done.
Ownership & Impact: Shape the future of AI-powered finance—building a category-defining product used by consumers and institutions around the world.
Experienced Team: Join a team with leadership that has a track record of scaling companies from early stage to major exits.
Principles-Driven Culture: Work in a culture that values speed, ownership, and impact—what most companies achieve in 90 days, we do in 45.
Comprehensive Compensation Package: Competitive salary, equity, and robust benefits package, including paid health, vision, dental, and disability coverage.
Base Compensation Range (New York City): $185,000 - $232,000
Final compensation will depend on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, internal leveling, and market conditions, and will be offered within the stated range in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws.
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If you're excited to contribute to a high-bar team building something meaningful, we'd love to hear from you.
