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Next-gen security startups hiring now
The next-gen security startups hiring the most right now are Horizon3 AI, Upwind Security and Abnormal. 35% of their open roles are in engineering. 59% of these companies hire mostly remote. Most are based in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. Every role here comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
35%
of roles in engineering
23%
of roles in sales and gtm
8%
of roles in ai and ml
7%
of roles in marketing
2%
of roles in operations
Companies
Who is hiring
Horizon3 AI
San Francisco, US · Series E
Horizon3.ai’s world-class product and research teams are building a highly scalable platform that brings all of these capabilities and more into one place to power an integrated, dynamic, and continuous security approach.
125 open roles64% remote
Upwind Security
San Francisco, US · Series B
Upwind is a cloud security platform that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks. It provides agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security.
82 open roles56% remote
Abnormal
Las Vegas, US · Series D
Abnormal AI is an AI-native human behavior security platform that leverages machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. The platform learns the behavior of every identity in cloud email environment and analyzes the risk to protect organizations from email and collaboration application attacks.
74 open roles100% remote
Chainguard
Kirkland, US · Series D
Chainguard provides hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. Its container catalog builds over 2,200 upstream projects into container images and maintains over 30,000 OS packages.
71 open roles100% remote
Cogent Security
San Francisco, US · Series A
Cogent Security provides an AI-driven platform that automates vulnerability management by continuously ingesting context, prioritizing risks, and coordinating remediation actions with minimal manual effort from security teams. The platform targets various industries, particularly finance and healthcare, and serves a diverse client base including large enterprises.
43 open roles57% remote
7AI
Boston, US · Series A
7AI’s agents handle alert triage, threat investigation, and incident response, reducing manual workload for security teams.
36 open roles56% remote
Endor Labs
Palo Alto, US · Series B
The platform uses reachability analysis to cut through noise and offers SAST, secrets detection, SCA, malicious package detection, AI governance, and container scanning.
31 open roles86% remote
Zafran Security
New York City, US · Series C
Zafran is an AI-native exposure management platform that eliminates the manual toil of vulnerability management by cutting through noise, revealing what is truly exploitable, and automating mitigation and remediation using the security controls teams already have.
28 open roles57% remote
Socket
San Francisco, US · Series C
Socket is a cybersecurity platform that protects companies from software supply chain attacks. It proactively monitors open source packages for malicious behaviors like backdoors, typo-squatting, and obfuscated code. Companies use Socket to protect their software applications and critical services from malware and security threats originating in open source code.
26 open roles100% remote
Zenity
Series C
Zenity secures long-horizon AI agents. Zenity secures agents at the point where context and intent come together.
26 open roles38% remote
Torq
Tel Aviv, IL · Series D
- Torq is the AI SOC platform that combines agentic insights and automation so that enterprises can triage, investigate, and respond to actual risks, faster.
24 open roles100% remote
Doppel
Covina, US · Series C
Doppel is an AI-native social engineering defense platform that uses agentic AI to protect executives, employees, customers, and brands from phishing, impersonation, fraud, and other AI-powered threats across digital channels.
21 open roles33% remote
Safe Security
Palo Alto, US · Series C
Safe Security offers a unified platform that quantifies and manages enterprise-wide cyber risk in real time. Its platform uses agent-based AI to generate risk scores, projected financial impact, and prioritized actions.
19 open roles16% remote
HiddenLayer
Austin, US · Series A
HiddenLayer provides an AI security platform that unifies supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming to protect agentic, generative and predictive AI applications. Its Machine Learning Detection and Response (MLDR) product monitors inputs and outputs of AI algorithms to offer real-time defense and flexible response options.
16 open roles100% remote
CloudSEK
CloudSEK uses graph-based intelligence to detect and disrupt cyberattacks. It combines cyber intelligence with monitoring of brands, attack surfaces, infrastructure and supply chains.
15 open roles67% remote
Harmonic Security, Inc
San Francisco, US · Series A
Harmonic Security provides an AI Governance and Control (AIGC) platform that monitors and governs AI usage across enterprises. The platform understands user and agent intent and data context in real time, giving security teams visibility and control over AI tools and workflows.
12 open roles100% remote
Island
Dallas, US · Series E
Island provides the Island Enterprise Platform, an enterprise browser that unifies AI enablement, network access, data protection, identity, and endpoint control into one workspace.
11 open roles64% remote
Dropzone AI
seattle, US · Series B
Dropzone AI builds AI security analysts that investigate alerts and hunt for threats. Its software uses a security team's existing tools and data to assess incidents.
11 open roles100% remote
Kratikal
Kratikal also offers AutoSecT, an AI-driven Pentest and VMDR platform that provides real-time protection across your entire digital infrastructure.
11 open roles
Oligo Security
Tel Aviv, IL · Series B
Oligo Security provides a runtime security platform that detects, prioritizes, and blocks threats across applications, cloud, and AI. The platform gives security teams real-time runtime intelligence to prioritize risk, automate response, and block exploits before they become breaches.
10 open roles20% remote
Semgrep
San Francisco, US · Series D
Semgrep is an application security platform that provides static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secrets detection. It identifies vulnerabilities in source code without executing it.
10 open roles20% remote
Legit Security
Tel Aviv, IL · Series B
Legit Security delivers an AI-native ASPM platform that automates AppSec issue discovery, prioritization, and remediation. The platform provides full management from AI-generated code to deployment, helping customers analyze their software risk, fix it with agents, and secure code during generation.
9 open roles11% remote
Terra Security
Boston, US · Series A
Terra Security provides an agentic AI-powered continuous penetration testing platform. The platform unifies continuous agentic pentesting across AI systems, network infrastructure, and web apps with a human-on-the-loop for safety and compliance.
9 open roles44% remote
Scrut Automation
Milpitas, US · Series A
Scrut Automation provides an automated compliance and risk management platform. The platform integrates with cloud and SaaS tools to automatically collect evidence artifacts and track compliance tasks.
8 open roles88% remote
Adaptive Security
New York City, US · Series B
Adaptive Security is a cybersecurity company that develops an AI-native platform for security awareness training, phishing simulations, and real-time threat triage to protect organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks.
8 open roles13% remote
Simbian
Simbian AI agents triage, investigate and respond to detection alerts. Simbian investigates detection alerts and closes false positives.
7 open roles100% remote
Reco
US · Series B
Data security
6 open roles83% remote
Prophet Security
Palo Alto, US · Series A
Prophet Security offers an AI SOC platform that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to security alerts. The platform integrates with SIEMs, EDRs, and other security tools to deliver full-context investigations within existing workflows.
5 open roles60% remote
Lasso Security
Series A
The company offers a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) security platform that monitors interactions, detects risks, and helps organizations manage GenAI activities.
5 open roles0% remote
Descope
Los Altos, US · Seed
Descope is a drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform. It provides no/low code workflows, SDKs, and APIs for organizations to create and customize identity journeys for customers, partners, AI agents, and MCP servers.
4 open roles
Open roles
Newest roles at these startups
Upwind Security
Brazil
Solution Architect - Brazil
Brazil
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today
Abnormal
Remote - Australia
AI Security Sales Executive
Remote - Australia
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1d ago
Zenity
NYC
GTM AI Engineer
NYC
$150k–$190k
1d ago
Zenity
NYC
Controller
NYC
$200k–$240k
1d ago
Zenity
NYC
Sr. Software Engineer
NYC
$180k–$250k
1d ago
Upwind Security
United Kingdom
Commercial Account Executive – SMB & Startups, UK&I
United Kingdom
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1d ago
Zafran Security
USA
Senior Manager, Field & Event Marketing
USA
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1d ago
Upwind Security
Tel Aviv
AI Engineer
Tel Aviv
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1d ago
What next-gen security startups build
Security built for AI-era threats, identities and infrastructure. Horizon3 AI: Horizon3.ai’s world-class product and research teams are building a highly scalable platform that brings all of these capabilities and more into one place to power an integrated, dynamic, and continuous security approach. Upwind Security: Upwind is a cloud security platform that uses runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks. It provides agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security. Abnormal: Abnormal AI is an AI-native human behavior security platform that leverages machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. The platform learns the behavior of every identity in cloud email environment and analyzes the risk to protect organizations from email and collaboration application attacks.
The roles they hire for
Across the roles open today, the mix is engineering (35%), sales and gtm (23%), ai and ml (8%), marketing (7%) and operations (2%). Engineering roles here often ask for hands-on work with the product's hardest part, so a portfolio or a shipped project counts for more than a long resume.
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Frequently asked
Which next-gen security startups are hiring the most?
Right now: Horizon3 AI, Upwind Security, Abnormal, Chainguard and Cogent Security. The list above ranks every company by the roles it has open today.
Do next-gen security startups hire remotely?
59% of the companies here hire mostly remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do next-gen security startups hire for?
The most common are engineering, sales and gtm and ai and ml.
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