Why Accordance

Accordance is a secure AI platform for professionals in accounting and finance that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Accordance uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized by our expert team of finance professionals, engineers, and research scientists. We’ve found product-market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Accordance are:

• Exceptional product-market fit: We have partnered with the largest accounting firms and professional service providers in the world.

• Strategic investors: Raised from top strategic investors.

• World-class team: Accordance is hiring the best technical and non-technical talent from places like OpenAI, FAIR, Flexport, DeepMind, Google Brain, and Stanford AI Laboratory (SAIL).

• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with Microsoft and OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

• Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.

Role

You will report to our CTO and take ownership of securing the infrastructure that powers our main product, Accordance. As an early member of our Security team, you will help lay the foundations of the security and privacy. Your focus will be to secure customer data in our main product, for example by designing and implementing process and technologies for least privilege, isolating different components, managing attack surface, and by implementing layers of tenant isolation on our multi-tenant SaaS offering.

As the company grows, you will work towards allowing our research and engineering teams to move more quickly and autonomously by building guardrails and repeatable patterns for managing their infrastructure.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate secure design principles into our cloud architecture.

• Deploy infrastructure security solutions in collaboration with our infrastructure team, e.g. for production access management, certificate management, and audit logging

• Develop isolation mechanisms (e.g. sandboxing) in collaboration with our product engineering team

• Review security-critical configuration changes and act as Codeowner for security-critical parts of our cloud configurations (everything is IaC)

• Audit our existing cloud environment for vulnerabilities

• Develop policies and procedures for the secure creation and operation of our cloud environments

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Security, Software Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles

• Strong fundamentals in networking, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols

• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, common misconfigurations, and privilege escalation vectors

• Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g. privilege escalation) in real-world cloud environments

• Experience applying security best practices in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)

• Software development experience

Accordance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.