VP, Security

About Engine Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel. For a decade, Engine has built the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel, serving over 40,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, along with leading travel and AI companies that build on Engine's infrastructure. One system powers business travel, group travel, human agents, and AI agents. That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020–2026). We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career. Every hire raises the bar. Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us. The Role We're hiring a VP of Security to own security at Engine end to end: strategy, engineering, operations, and the trust posture that carries us through future funding and beyond. This is not a maintain-the-program role. The program is healthy: clean SOC 2 and PCI audits, established AppSec, SecOps, and CloudSec functions, modern tooling across the stack. The mandate is to build what comes next. What comes next is AI. Agents inheriting human credentials in cloud environments with real access sprawl. Prompt injection and data exfiltration attempts against customer-facing AI surfaces. Shadow AI usage across every function of the business. Non-engineers shipping AI-built software that never touches a review path. Adversaries using the same models we do, at machine speed. We need a leader who sees this wave clearly, has strong conviction about what to build, and can stand up net-new AI security capability while keeping the fundamentals sharp. This role reports directly to the SVP of Engineering and AI and operates as a peer to senior engineering leadership. You'll represent security to the executive team, the board, and enterprise customers. What You'll Own • AI Security (the priority). Stand up our AI security function from approved headcount. Build the internal AI gateway: single controlled egress for all internal AI usage, with authN, per-tool authZ, central prompt and output logging, inline DLP, and model allowlisting that discovers and absorbs shadow AI. Define agent identity in AWS so agents get scoped roles and short-lived credentials, never inherited human permissions. Harden consumer-facing AI surfaces: authenticated MCP with gateway-enforced per-tool authorization, a bad-prompt detection pipeline feeding the SIEM, output filtering on sensitive fields, and a red team scenario suite that runs as CI regression on every AI surface. • Security Engineering. Lead AppSec and SecArch, SecOps, and CloudSec, roughly ten people at full staffing across the current team and approved reqs, plus the corporate IT function. Drive the roadmap already in motion: secure-by-design intake, secrets refactoring, org-wide RBAC mapped to Okta groups, detection engineering on our next-gen SIEM, automated response playbooks, and identity log onboarding across Okta, Salesforce, and AWS. • GTM and Operations Security. Harden how the business operates: Salesforce least privilege, contractor and BPO access through VDI on managed hardware, insider threat monitoring, and production data hygiene. • Enterprise Trust and Series D Readiness. Own the security narrative for fundraising diligence and enterprise sales. Run point on customer security reviews and build the trust artifacts that shorten enterprise deals. Own the technical controls behind SOC 2 and PCI in close partnership with our legal team, which o