About Dust

We're creating a new AI operating system that has the potential to change the way companies operate. Our mission at Dust is to transform how work gets done by letting any team and employee shape the exact agents they need to accelerate their jobs.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We already are a core part of their jobs.

We are at an exciting stage of our journey. We‘ve raised our Series A, expanded in the US, and hit the $1m and $2m ARR milestones in 2024; we aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2025.

Dust is a Sequoia-backed company with an experienced and determined team of optimists (coming from companies like Stripe or OpenAI) that like to focus on users, getting great things done by shipping, and doesn’t take itself too seriously while doing so.

TL;DR

You'll be Dust's first security hire, architecting the security of our entire platform. This is a unique opportunity to define security standards for AI agents while protecting sensitive customer data at a fast-growing Sequoia-backed startup.

You'll work directly with our CTO to build and scale security practices that match our ambitious growth.

Our culture

• Product-First: Unlike others focused on building foundation models, we're laser-focused on creating delightful product experiences with existing LLMs. Think “No GPUs before PMF”.

• Small, High-Impact Team: Join a team of alumni from Stripe, Front, OpenAI, and other top tech companies. We're intentionally keeping our team small and mighty – every engineer has massive scope and impact.

• Transparency & Collaboration: Our repository is open source, and we leverage serendipity between team members. We believe the best ideas emerge when the team shares information and insights openly.

• Proactive Problem-Solving: If you see something broken, fix it—without waiting for permission. We don't wait for solutions - we create them.

• Ship to Learn: We move fast and learn from real user feedback.

• Intellectual Humility: We value strong convictions balanced with open-mindedness. Team members confidently advocate for their ideas while remaining receptive to new perspectives and evidence that might change their minds. If new data emerges, we adapt quickly.

What you’ll do

We're looking for someone who can think strategically about security while being hands-on with implementation. You'll be both architecting security systems and writing code to automate security processes.

• Lead Security Architecture: Design and implement security controls that protect customer data while enabling rapid product development. Architect the future of Dust on-cloud solutions using infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources securely.

• Drive Compliance: Own our SOC 2 Type II compliance and expand our security certifications (GDPR, HIPAA) as we grow

• Shape Security Culture: Build security awareness across the company and develop processes that make security everyone's responsibility

• Secure AI Operations: Design security measures specific to AI agents, protecting against prompt injection, data leakage, and other emerging threats

• Infrastructure Security: Strengthen our cloud security posture using infrastructure as code and automated security controls. Identify vulnerabilities within our network and propose and implement countermeasures.

• Incident Response: Build and lead our incident response program, ensuring we're prepared for and can quickly respond to security events, from identification through resolution and post-mortem.

Tech Stack Highlights

• Dust for Dust: We use Dust for Coding, debugging, knowledge search (runbooks, codebase), incident management, and task automation (i.e., creating issues).

• Security Tools: Modern security stack including cloud security platforms, SIEM, and compliance automation tools

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native security

• Programming language: TypeScript/React and/or Rust (not a requirement; + we’re open to people who are experts in other programming languages)

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive compensation: €60K - €150K* base salary

• 🏡 We offer substantial support for relocation (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure

• Significant equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup

• Health insurance for you and your dependents

• New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc.

• Beautiful office in the heart of Paris

• Opportunity to travel to the US multiple times a year

• Regular team events and offsites

*We can go higher for outstanding profiles.

Location

We're building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris and San Francisco, prioritizing the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.

Why Dust

We're not building yet another enterprise SaaS tool. We’re creating an AI OS that will fundamentally change how companies operate. We believe existing AI models are powerful enough to have a tremendous impact on the world (and will keep getting better) – the key is building the infrastructure so that they have context and explore the best interfaces for humans to interact with them.

We have the unique opportunity to explore and shape the way humans interact with machines while working on a product we use ourselves every day.

If you're excited about crafting products that reinvent B2B software and want to join a team that combines the best of startup culture with the backing of top-tier investors, we'd love to talk.

👋 Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist.

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Learn how we think and work.

• Our product constitution a story about our mission

• Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024

• LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024