Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years in security, with demonstrated experience building automation for a GRC or compliance program
• You've been the technical owner of at least one SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 audit and can tell us what you would do differently
• You write code, and you use LLMs to get more done without lowering the bar
• Hands-on with a GRC platform's API, not just its dashboard
• Cloud IAM and configuration depth on at least one provider, GCP preferred
• You can decide what evidence is sufficient and defend an automated test to an auditor
• Comfortable being one of a few security engineers; you can scope, prioritize, and ship without a lot of process around you
• Clear writer: policies, control narratives, and questionnaire answers are read by customers, so they have to be good
• Experience at an all-remote company
• Shipped LLM or agentic workflows in production for compliance work
• Experience at a developer-tools company

What the job involves

• Clerk is looking for a Senior GRC Engineer to join our Security Team. Our customers put Clerk in the middle of their authentication flow, and every one of them runs us through their own vendor review before they do. You'll own the program that makes that review easy: the controls, the evidence, the audits, and the answers
• You'll work as a hands-on engineer. Expect to spend a lot of your time writing integrations, automations, and internal tools that enforce policies and automate the evidence gathering. The goal is a program that's always current, so an audit is just someone observing it rather than a quarterly scramble
• Own SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA end to end: scoping, control design, evidence, auditor walkthroughs, and remediation
• Scope and lead our next framework (ISO 27001 is the likely candidate) based on what customers actually ask for
• Build and maintain the integrations that feed our GRC platform from our cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems
• Turn controls into continuous checks: policy-as-code, config drift detection, and a control-failure pipeline from detection to closure
• Run the vendor security review program, from intake to periodic re-review
• Own the security questionnaire and trust center workflow
• Maintain the risk register and run risk assessments that produce documented decisions
• Embed compliance requirements into the SDLC and change management so they're enforced by tooling, not by reminders
• Reduce the number of things a human has to do to pass an audit every quarter

Benefits

• Competitive salary: We want you to know that we value the skills you bring to the table, so we go out of our way to make sure you’re fairly compensated.
• Equity ownership: At Clerk, we believe in shared success, which is why we offer a stock option plan that everyone stands to benefit from as we grow.
• Health coverage: We care about your well-being, so we offer top-tier health insurance to ensure your health needs are met. (US-based employees)
• Work equipment: We’ll make sure you have everything you need to set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice.
• Flexible vacation policy: We're believers in work-life balance and trust you to take the time you need with our unlimited vacation policy.
• Remote and diverse team: We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where you can do the best work of your life with a global, fully-remote team.