Founding Software Engineer

Full-time
Hybrid
$100,000-175,000/yr
Seattle, WA

Job description

About the role

Company Description

Clearly AI accelerates enterprise security and privacy reviews. Our platform helps users complete threat models, privacy impact reviews, and vendor risk evaluations in a fraction of the time. We are a seed-stage company of security and AI experts backed by strong investors including Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, and Argon Ventures.

Role Description

This is a full-time role for a Sr. Software Engineer at Clearly AI. The Sr. Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and developing software solutions to automate security and privacy reviews. Given the size and stage of our startup, you will have total ownership of significant portions of the product.

Location

We're based in Seattle, WA, but the role allows for remote work. We meet in person weekly. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience developing software.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Typescript, NextJS.
  • Experience with integrating applications to products like GitHub, Google Drive, Jira.
  • Experience developing full-stack web applications (APIs, webhooks, background workers, cloud).
  • Sound judgment on balancing the use of AI on the scale from AI-assisted auto-complete all the way up to "vibe coding."
  • Experience with security and privacy assessments, compliance standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA) is a plus.

More information

Minimum education level

Bachelor's

Experience level

Senior (5-7 years)

Company overview

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Clearly AI

Computer & Network Security·11-50 employees

Clearly AI, a YC-backed company, automates security and privacy reviews, helping teams cut backlogs, reduce manual effort, and gain full visibility into risk and compliance. Designed for enterprises with complex requirements, Clearly AI accelerates assessments like threat modeling, privacy impact reviews, and vendor risk evaluations—without disrupting workflows. - 90% faster reviews: Reduce privacy assessment backlogs from months to days - Stronger security & compliance: Automate audits, risk prioritization, and regulatory reporting - Seamless integrations: Works with Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and more Move faster, reduce risk, and stay compliant—without increasing headcount.