Security and Reliability Engineer

Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs

United States · Germany · Remote
Posted on Apr 24, 2025

Black Forest Labs is a cutting-edge startup pioneering generative image and video models. Our team, which invented Stable Diffusion, Stable Video Diffusion, and FLUX.1, is currently seeking a strong security engineer to work closely with our team in building and implementing world class security infrastructure and ensuring regulatory compliance across the business.

Role:

  • End to end ownership of Black Forest Labs internal application and infrastructure security.
  • Architecting and developing internal security infrastructure.
  • Guiding the company through the implementation of regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
  • Owning customer and vendor relationships regarding Black Forest Labs security.

Ideal experiences:

  • Passion for both application and infrastructure security
  • Prior hands-on ownership of SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programs
  • Ability to drive gap analysis → remediation → audit end-to-end
  • Comfortable speaking with external auditors, enterprise customers, and internal engineers
  • Able to balance long-term strategy with immediate security wins

Nice to have:

  • Familiar with Vanta / Hypercomply / Cacilian
  • Keen interest in or background in API first AI businesses.
  • Previously owned security in a startup from the ground up.