Enterprise Security Engineer

Compa is a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing the future of compensation.

In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges accountability and the rise of AI companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes competition and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams.

Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI.

Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: NVIDIA Stripe DoorDash Open AI TMobile Moderna Workday Ulta Target and more.

Locations:

Compa headquarters are located in Irvine California with growing sites in Denver Colorado and San Francisco California. We’re a collaborative curious and driven team that values transparency ownership and continuous learning and prioritizing in person work where possible.

The Role

We are looking for an Enterprise Security Engineer to help build and operate Compa’s security-first enterprise environment.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting directly to the Head of Security & IT. You'll own the systems that define how employees access use and interact with technology at Compa — identity access endpoints and enterprise SaaS — and treat them as core security infrastructure not traditional IT.

This role sits on the Security team and partners closely with the rest of the business to help Compa move fast securely all while delivering a world-class employee experience.

We're open to candidates earlier in their career who demonstrate strong systems thinking sound judgment and the ability to design for scale. We care more about what you can do than how many years you have been doing it.

In this role you will:

• Design build and operate Compa’s enterprise security systems including identity access control endpoint management and enterprise SaaS administration.

• Own end-to-end identity and access workflows including role-based access models access packages provisioning deprovisioning and ongoing access hygiene.

• Support employees by ensuring reliable secure access to the tools they need resolving access and device issues with a strong bias toward durable system-level fixes.

• Implement security-first onboarding offboarding and access change processes that scale smoothly as the company grows.

• Design and maintain integrations across enterprise security systems (identity devices SaaS and supporting tooling) to ensure consistency reliability and scalability.

• Automate wherever possible reducing manual work and operational risk while improving reliability auditability and employee experience.

• Operate and continuously improve endpoint and device management systems (for example: Jamf Intune) balancing security requirements with usability.

• Own the accuracy and consistency of enterprise security sources of truth including users devices and applications.

• Collaborate with the Security team on shared security operations responsibilities helping improve detection response and investigation through better system design signals and operational readiness.

• Continuously raise Compa’s defensive posture by evolving enterprise security controls such as just-in-time access trusted devices and zero trust and by contributing to a strong internal security culture.

• Support the security team with access reviews audits and investigations by providing high-quality system design evidence and operational context.

• Maintain clear documentation runbooks and operational processes that enable resilience self-service and predictable failure modes.

• Act as a force multiplier for the Security team by translating security intent into durable well-designed enterprise systems that allow Compa to move fast securely.

What success looks like

• Employees have fast secure access to the tools they need with minimal friction and a consistently strong user experience.

• Access is clean role-based least-privilege continuously reviewed and auditable.

• Enterprise security systems scale smoothly as the company grows and evolve as new risks emerge.

• Manual work is continuously reduced through automation better system design and clear sources of truth.

• Enterprise systems provide reliable signals that support detection response and investigation.

• Security compliance and operational needs reinforce each other rather than compete enabling Compa to move fast securely.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience owning and operating enterprise systems such as identity providers access management endpoint management or enterprise SaaS platforms.

• Strong systems thinking: ability to reason about workflows failure modes scale and operational risk.

• Comfort designing access models and operational processes not just executing tickets.

• Ability to automate or significantly reduce manual operational work and to improve systems over time.

• Ability to support users effectively by diagnosing and resolving system issues with a bias toward durable fixes.

• Clear written and verbal communication especially around systems trade-offs and security implications.

• Low ego strong ownership mindset and good judgment in ambiguous environments.

• Gumption — experience working in high-growth or resource-constrained environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating identity and access management systems (for example: Microsoft Entra).

• Experience designing role-based access control access reviews and provisioning workflows.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and supporting audits through system evidence.

• Experience contributing to detection response or investigation through identity device or access signals.

• Experience supporting organizations with high security and privacy expectations.

• Interest in continuously improving defensive posture through controls such as just-in-time access trusted devices or identity-driven security.

• Interest in growing into broader ownership over Enterprise Security or IT as the company scales.

What We Do

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges accountability and the rise of AI companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes competition and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI. Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: Apple NVIDIA Tesla Mastercard T-Mobile Sanofi Moderna Gilead Sciences and more.

Why Work With Us

Compa is reimagining how companies win with pay—building tools that make compensation more fair transparent and data-driven. You’ll join a mission-driven remote-first team that values ownership low ego and real impact. If you want to shape the future of work this is the place.

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