Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect
Molten Ventures is a British venture capital firm investing in high-growth European technology companies. It backs founders from Series A and beyond with capital, expertise, networks, and long-term support.
About Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures invests in ambitious European technology companies across areas including fintech, AI, climate, quantum, infrastructure, enterprise software, consumer applications, semiconductors, and hardware. It typically invests £2 million to £50 million at Series A or B, supporting companies with product-market fit and commercial traction. The organization also operates investment products including Molten Ventures PLC, Molten Ventures EIS, and Molten Ventures VCT, and provides portfolio engagement and sustainability support.
Skills
About the Role
You will own the end-to-end security architecture for a large-scale AI inference service platform, covering infrastructure, networking, APIs, operational controls, monitoring, and customer assurance. You will define security principles, threat models, trust boundaries, tenant isolation requirements, and architectural standards. You will set requirements for platform security across hardware, firmware, secure boot, attestation, and software integrity, and lead the design of network isolation, secure communications, and administrative access protections. You will own authentication, authorisation, secrets management, encryption, key management, and data protection controls. You will partner with engineering and operations teams to implement and validate security requirements, support customer security reviews, audits, and penetration testing, and provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design review expertise across multiple disciplines.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Significant experience in security architecture, platform security, cloud security, or infrastructure security
- Demonstrated experience owning security architecture for customer-facing platforms or large-scale production environments
- Deep understanding of threat modelling, zero-trust principles, tenant isolation, privileged access management, and cryptographic controls
- Strong knowledge of trusted execution mechanisms, secure boot, attestation, firmware integrity, and supply-chain security
- Experience defining security requirements for data centre deployments and physical security controls
- Expertise in network security architecture, segmentation, management-plane protection, and secure communications
- Experience with key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and encryption technologies
- Experience securing APIs, deployment pipelines, service control planes, and operational tooling
- Strong understanding of logging, monitoring, incident response, security operations, and evidence management
- Experience supporting customer security reviews, audits, and executive-level security discussions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end security architecture for the inference service platform
- Define security principles, threat models, trust boundaries, and tenant isolation requirements
- Establish security requirements for deployment environments including physical security and access management
- Define platform security requirements across hardware, firmware, secure boot, attestation, and software integrity
- Lead design of network and service isolation controls and segmentation strategies
- Own security architecture for authentication, authorisation, secrets management, encryption, and key management
- Define privileged access management approaches, audit requirements, and access review processes
- Establish logging, monitoring, telemetry, incident response, and security assurance requirements
- Partner with engineering and operations teams to implement and validate security requirements
- Assess security posture against customer, regulatory, and internal requirements
- Support customer security reviews, audits, penetration testing, and security questionnaires
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, mentoring, and design review across teams
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
- Wellness services
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working arrangements
