Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

About the role

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. As we scale to support millions of developers and enterprise organizations, maintaining a robust, transparent, and technically sound Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program is critical.

We are looking for a GRC Engineer to serve as a key technical contributor for our compliance and risk management ecosystem. You will architect the systems and processes that automate trust, partnering deeply across the organization. We need a pragmatic operator who understands that GRC exists to enable the business—balancing rigorous standards with the velocity of a high-growth startup.

What You'll Do

Technical Excellence & Architecture

• Technical Depth: Act as a technical subject matter expert for the GRC team. You will drive quality, technical depth, and operational efficiency in our security controls.

• Program Architecture: Own the technical vision for Replit’s GRC program, moving the team from manual workflows toward "Compliance-as-Code" and automated evidence collection.

• Thought Leadership: Champion a culture of security and privacy across the company, educating teams on why controls exist rather than just enforcing them.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Engineering & Architecture: Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to "bake in" compliance requirements early in the design phase. You will translate complex technical implementations into narratives that satisfy frameworks without slowing down development.

• Legal & Privacy: Work closely with Legal Counsel to interpret and implement requirements for Privacy (GDPR, CCPA) and emerging AI-specific regulations (e.g., EU AI Act).

• Sales & GTM: Enable the Sales team by managing the Customer Trust Center and handling complex security questionnaires. You will serve as a subject matter expert in customer calls to build confidence with enterprise prospects.

• Auditor Relationships: Own and cultivate the primary relationship with external auditors. You will serve as the bridge between auditors and internal teams, ensuring requests are reasonable, clear, and relevant to our tech stack.

Risk Management & Strategic Compliance

• Risk Register Operator: You will operate the Cybersecurity Risk Register. You will be responsible for identifying, quantifying, and tracking risks, distinguishing between theoretical compliance gaps and meaningful business risks.

• Framework Evolution: Manage and evolve our compliance posture across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and prepare the organization for future certifications in regulated markets (e.g., FedRAMP, ITAR, PCI, HIPAA).

• Pragmatic Governance: Apply judgment to operate in "gray areas" when appropriate. You will prioritize issues that represent real security or business risk over "compliance theater."

Automation & Efficiency

• Control Automation: Drive the shift from manual evidence collection to continuous monitoring. You will identify opportunities to automate audit work, ensuring GRC scales with the business.

• Third-Party Risk: Architect a scalable framework for assessing third-party vendors and AI model providers, ensuring our supply chain remains secure without creating administrative bottlenecks.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in GRC or Information Security

• Technical Fluency: Ability to speak the language of engineering, cloud (GCP/AWS), and security architecture. You can anticipate how architectural decisions impact risk and compliance.

• Regulatory Breadth: Deep experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPPA, and Privacy laws.

• Collaborative Communication: Strong ability to explain risk and tradeoffs to technical (Engineers), legal, and commercial (Sales/Execs) stakeholders.

• Automation Mindset: Experience with GRC automation tools (e.g., Vanta, Drata) and a bias toward reducing manual toil.
  

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with FedRAMP, ITAR, or AI regulation is a strong plus.

What We Value

• Pragmatism: You distinguish between "checking a box" and reducing risk. You focus on outcomes over optics.

• Business Enablement: You understand that your role is to help Replit sell to the enterprise safely, supporting innovation through technical trust.

• Solutions-Oriented: You are collaborative and low-ego. You prefer fixing root causes and empowering teams through automation over manual bureaucracy.

• Clarity: You can take a complex regulation and explain exactly what it means for a specific engineering team in plain English.

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend

🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment

🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings

☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

About Replit

Replit is building the world’s most ubiquitous AI coding agent. Replit Agent can be used by anybody to bring their ideas to life. Whether it’s an app for yourself, the next great startup idea, or a tool to make you more productive at work, Replit Agent can help build it. Replit is also the leader in secure vibe coding. We protect apps, give users features to manage security risks, and help them vibe code more safely.

About the Role

In this role you will build powerful tools that help product engineers iterate rapidly on the Agent experience and directly enhance the core Agent itself. You’ll bridge the gap between the AI team (working on the core Agent logic) and the UX team (crafting delightful Agent experiences), enabling both groups to excel within their specialties.

This role blends systems engineering, developer experience and product engineering. We tackle complex challenges across the full stack, from browser-based interfaces to high-performance backends to Linux systems engineering. We’re looking for engineers who have a keen sense of the product experience and how to power it with performant systems.

On this team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills across our infrastructure and product, and to lead end-to-end efforts with meaningful impact. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

You Will

• Build high-throughput backend applications and services, like streaming chat between user and agent.

• Design a collaborative "Multiplayer Computer" that lets humans and AI agents work together on shared shells, filesystems, and state—conflict-free and in real time.

• Develop infrastructure (frontend & backend) that empowers product engineers to rapidly ship delightful user experiences.

• Design and build durable, well-crafted interfaces between the Agent and internal systems, as well as external agentic systems (MCP)

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years professional experience in building backend services, systems and platforms

• Someone who values simplicity and pragmatism—you think radically but ship incrementally.

• Self-directed and comfortable working autonomously.

• Collaborative and team-oriented with a strong sense of shared ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across the full-stack.

• Experience building AI powered tooling or products.

• Experience with collaborative editing technologies such as Operational Transforms (OT), CRDTs, or the inner workings of Git.

• Experience with event sourcing systems.

What We Value

• Problem-solving mindset: Ability to approach complex operational challenges systematically and devise effective solutions

• Self-directed and autonomous: Capable of working independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams

• Strong communication skills: Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Continuous learning: Passion for staying current with industry best practices and new technologies

• Focus on automation: Strong belief in automating repetitive tasks and building self-healing systems

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend

🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment

🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings

☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

The Mandate: Industry Disruption and 10x Scale:

Vision: Product Foundry is Replit's internal engine for innovation. We move Replit beyond being a collaborative development environment to becoming the foundational operating system for the entire next generation of software, where AI Agents are the primary actors.

The 10x Goal: Our purpose is to launch high-risk, full-stack 0→1 initiatives that define and establish entirely new, multi-billion-dollar product categories. We are seeking non-linear growth opportunities, fundamentally aiming to 10x Replit's value and addressable market by proving out unprecedented technical primitives and disruptive Go-To-Market strategies.

The Audience: We build for the next generation of creators and high-leverage users and enterprises, equipping them with tools that enable them to build anything, anywhere.

Candidates that do well here will certainly go on to build their own companies in the future! This is a high visibility role reporting to

Execution Model: High-Agency Founding Teams

• Structure: We operate as a collective of in-house technical founders—not just specialized engineers. Initiatives are run by lean, autonomous squads built for velocity and maximum technical leverage. This model is centered around an Engineer DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) who maintains total ownership over the initiative's technical, product, and launch success, supported by fractional PM and Design resources.

• Cadence: We enforce rapid iteration and rapid market validation via 3-week sprints per initiative. This cadence forces fast deployment, immediate user feedback, and tight alignment with the internal betting table process, mirroring the intensity and speed of a lean startup.

Required skills and experience

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Technical company founding entrepreneurial or high visibility side projects experience preferred but not required

• Understanding of the full agentic software development stack, helping coding agents build, test and review correct code.

• Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders

• Experience building and operating platform systems that other teams depend on

• Strong product judgment: you can balance UX, speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability

• Comfort working in modern web stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres

Example Projects You’ll Work On

• Helping Replit Agent build viable alternatives to the world’s most popular SaaS vendors (Data, Decks, Videos, etc)

• Replit Agent becoming a full principal within a large number of third party services (read and write)

• You can use Replit fully within a wide range of chat, agentic and commerce environments

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend

🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment

🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings

☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.