DevSecOps Lead, Hiya
£80-120k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
Phone call security software
Open for applications
Phone call security software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£80-120k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To modernize voice with trust, identity, and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture (AWS) and modern security best practices
- Proven experience designing "self-service" platforms that developers actually want to use
- Strong communication skills—the ability to turn complex security concerns into decisions engineers and stakeholders can act on
- High proficiency in at least one modern language and familiarity with agent-based/AI-assisted development tools
- Pragmatism—knowing when to accept calculated tech debt in favor of high-impact outcomes
- A leadership style rooted in empathy, collaborative debate, and commitment to team decisions
- Builds systems, documentation, and team capability that outlast you — we're wary of highly productive engineers who leave behind bespoke, unmaintainable tooling that has to be scrapped when they move on
- The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- The Lead DevSecOps Engineer is a leadership and individual contributor role responsible for maturing our security posture across all engineering departments
- You will lead the design and implementation of automated, platform-based security solutions, enabling teams to build secure software while maintaining velocity
- You will partner closely with Core Tech, Product, and Engineering leadership to define our security roadmap and culture
- We’re excited about you because you are a trailblazer who balances high-level strategy with hands-on technical execution
- You are comfortable building from near-scratch, thrive on educating others, and possess a "platform" mindset that prioritizes empowering developers over acting as a gatekeeper
- Define and execute a multi-quarter security roadmap for the entire engineering organization
- Develop and maintain platform-level security tools that enable automated, self-service security for feature teams
- Partner with Core Tech to integrate security primitives into our standard CI/CD and cloud deployment workflows
- Conduct cross-team discovery to assess current security posture and identify high-risk technical debt
- Mentor junior and peer engineers, fostering a culture where security is integrated into the "you build it, you run it" philosophy
- Stay ahead of evolving threat landscapes, specifically regarding supply chain risks and large-scale AI infrastructure
- Own and mature our existing detection, SIEM, and incident-response tooling as part of building out the broader security platform — this role inherits live systems, it isn't a blank canvas
- Act as a security collaborator to IT on AI-usage risk (data exposure via connectors/agents, prompt injection) — distinct from, and in addition to, securing the AI systems Hiya builds as a product
- The person in this role must embody Hiya’s key values of Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success, and Leading by showing up with a point of view, engaging in open discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Combining data analysis with machine learning, the Hiya platform helps businesses and individuals field calls and block spam numbers from calling them. Saving businesses time and potential security breaches, the company aims to resolidify trust in business calls, especially from unidentified numbers.
Founded in 2016, Hiya claims that in 2022, spam calls were up by more than 30% and that spam and fraud callers are becoming more sophisticated. With tech advances in cybercrime, the opposite is true, too. Hiya use AI to fight the tech used by scammers. Its most recent product is a personalised AI that analyses personal data and learns from the calls an individual takes and hangs up. This innovation will help Hiya stand out in a competitive security marketplace, though one that is mostly focused on internet safety and company data breaches. Hiya has the potential to reach a far larger client base than just businesses, and this key difference has helped it raise $18 million in funding so far.
Of course, cybercrime evolves with the times, and Hiya will have to continue innovating to keep pace with radical shifts in how AI is used to scam individuals. With a 2025 launch of an AI assistant designed to screen deep-fake scam calls and a 2026-announced partnership with Vodafone, it seems to be doing so.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$4.7m
EARLY VC
Jul 2017
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $22.7m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- 100% Covered Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401K Program
- Vacation Package
- Paid Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Employer Covered Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
- Employee Learning and Development Budget
- Charitable Matching
Company HQ
Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Alex Algard
(Founder & CEO)Previously Founder at Ekata, Whitepages, Co-Founder at CarDomain Network and Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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