Our first dedicated security hire. You will be an individual contributor building the function.

Seekho is built on one straightforward belief: make learning fun and easy for everyone.

We are Indias #1 video edutainment platform, helping people learn real-world skills through short, expert-led videos across digital services, business, Spoken English, and much more. Founded in 2020 by IIT Kanpur alumni Rohit Choudhary, Keertay Agarwal and Yash Banwani, we are trusted by 4M+ paid subscribers and were ranked No. 2 in Google Plays Top Trending App 2025 list.

Your Role:

Youll own security across all of our products. With a large engineering team shipping daily, that means building secure defaults and tooling that scale rather than reviewing everything by hand security thats automatic, continuous and owned. Its a high-ownership role with significant independence, and youll succeed by partnering closely with engineering teams.

1. Enforce server-side authorization; defend against account takeover, promo abuse, payment tampering, and content piracy.
2. Secure our mobile and AI surfaces, and keep childrens, health, and payment data least-privilege and audited.
3. Make SAST, DAST, SCA and secret scanning default in CI/CD, and keep results trustworthy so engineers act on them.
4. Own our cloud posture VPCs, security groups, IAM, secrets management, and threat detection.
5. Run vulnerability management the VAPT cadence and a channel for outside researchers to report issues and see fixes through.
6. Build security incident management end to end, detection to postmortem,



against Indias short breach-reporting clock.
7. Build Seekhos security platform the internal libraries and guardrails engineers build on.

Must Have:
1. 4+ years in security, with real depth in application and API security.
2. You think in terms of how systems get exploited, not just vulnerability categories.
3. You can explain an authorization flaw in unfamiliar code, and code in Python or Go to build tooling.
4. Working knowledge of cloud security IAM, secrets, network controls, and threat detection.
5. Youve found real vulnerabilities yourself a bounty, a VAPT finding, a CVE, or in your own product.
6. Practical incident management, detection through postmortem youve worked a real incident, not just written the plan.
7. Youve owned security in-house for a shipping product, as the first or only security person.

Bonus:
1. Indias data-protection landscape (DPDP, SPDI/IT Act) and comfort partnering with legal/DPO
2. Payments and subscription fraud, RBI autopay and tokenization;
3. Childrens-data obligations and Play Families / Apple Kids compliance;
4. AI/LLM application security
5. Exposure to ISO 27001 or SOC 2.

Curious about life at Seekho We invite you to explore our Team & Culture page to learn more about our values, vibrant teams, and what makes working at Seekho a truly rewarding experience.

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📌 Founding Security Engineer (Product Security) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Seekho Ai
📍 Bengaluru