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Cantos VenturesVenture capital · San Francisco, CA

Information Security Generalist

  • Austin, TX
  • On-site
Pay not posted by the firm. We never estimate it.

Posted October 26, 2026Verified live today on Cantos Ventures’ careers site

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About the role

Role
Software engineering
Seniority
Mid
Type
Fulltime

About Us

We are a venture-backed manufacturing startup building the most advanced automated production facilities in the United States. We are on a mission to make American manufacturing economically viable - through intelligent machinery, automation, and a relentless focus on execution.

We are early, we are moving fast, and we are looking for exceptional people who want to build something that matters.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a well-rounded Information Security Generalist to be a foundational member of our technology organization. Someone who has brings strong experience and opinions, as well as the flexibility and maturity to build realistic solutions with whatever is on hand. This role will be implicitly involved with building our infrastructure and security presence, while being willing and able to provide operational support and guidance across the organization.

Core Responsibilities

  • Maintain, and support org-wide security tooling

  • Operationalize regular TSCM inspections for plant infrastructure, offices, and network systems

  • Run risk assessment processes for hardware and software required by the business; recommending and designing remediations to ensure secure operation

  • Build, and maintain run books for operational security processes

  • Build automation, and everything as code libraries

  • Work with the rest of the team to design, and implement scalable solutions support our security posture, and enable highly focused incident response

  • Collaborate across the organization to ensure first class security experiences for all team members

  • Drive organization security engagement, and education

  • Collaborate to establish security standards, and documentation

Required

  • 6+ years of broad security experience, with increasing scope, and complexity

  • Fluency in network infrastructure, protocols, standards, and troubleshooting

  • An understanding of the contemporary APT landscape, and an enthusiasm to take on the challenges associated with it

  • Proficiency functioning under a platform agnostic mandate, ensuring reliable interoperability for all solutions

  • Willingness to take an ownership role of TSCM operations, and a stake in physical security systems

  • No interest in security theater, and the ability to balance the critical tension between security posture, and the realities of a fast-moving organization

  • Effective communicator and collaborator in a distributed team environment; comfortable with async communication, vague, fluid requirements, and remote-first workflows

  • Flexible with schedule and hours; thrives in a startup environment where priorities shift, and urgency is real

Nice to Have

  • Experience at an early-stage hard tech, or deep tech startup

  • Prior experience on a small team, wearing multiple hats at the same time

  • Exposure to high security, high uptime environments

Additional

  • Willingness to travel as needed in order to meet the security needs of the business

  • Must be comfortable with a startup pace; this role demands flexibility, self-direction, and a bias toward action and outcomes over long-tail efforts

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