Senior GRC Engineer

Aircall is hiring a Senior GRC Engineer to build and operate the engineering backbone of our Governance, Risk & Compliance program. You'll join the Security Engineering team, reporting to the Security Engineering Manager, and partner closely with IT, Privacy, Legal, Product, and Engineering to make compliance a continuously-verified property of how we build and run Aircall — not a once-a-year audit scramble.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll automate controls, integrate our GRC platform with the systems that produce evidence, and turn policies into code where possible. You'll be the technical owner of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness from an engineering perspective, and a key contributor to how we mature risk management, vendor security, and audit operations as Aircall scales.

 This role will sit within the CTO organization, alongside Security & Infrastructure Engineering building the security foundation of a future Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) function.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate technical controls that satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR requirements across our cloud (AWS), SaaS, and corporate environments.

• Build and maintain integrations between our GRC platform (Drata) and source systems — IdP, cloud providers, ticketing, code repositories, HRIS, endpoint management — to automate evidence collection and continuous control monitoring.

• Engineer "compliance-as-code" workflows: codify policies and controls, automate drift detection, and surface failing controls back to owning teams via Jira, Slack, or dashboards.

• Support and progressively automate audit readiness: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 (and any future certifications such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI as the strategy evolves), preparing evidence, walking auditors through controls, and remediating findings.

• Operate the enterprise risk register day-to-day: run risk assessments, track mitigations, and produce reporting that helps leadership make decisions.

• Build and run the technical side of the vendor security program — questionnaire automation, tiering, evidence review, and ongoing monitoring of critical vendors.

• Partner with IT, Product, and Engineering to embed security and compliance requirements into the SDLC, change management, access reviews, and infrastructure provisioning.

• Contribute to incident response from the GRC side: maintain runbooks and policies, ensure regulatory and contractual notification timelines are met, and capture evidence and lessons learned.

• Partner with Legal/Privacy on GDPR obligations, data residency, DPAs, and customer security commitments.

• Help mature security awareness and training — measuring effectiveness, not just running it.

• Author and maintain security policies and standards in clear, accurate language that engineers will actually read.
• Promote a security-first culture across all functions, ensuring employees understand their role in protecting company and customer data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security, with at least 2–3 years in a GRC engineering, security engineering, or compliance automation role at a SaaS or cloud-native company.

• Strong working knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF / 800-53, and GDPR, and what it takes to actually operate (not just pass) them.

• Hands-on experience with a modern GRC platform (Ideally Drata) — including building or extending its integrations, not just clicking through the UI.

• Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate delivery and scale impact.

• Comfortable writing code (Python, Go, or similar) and working with cloud APIs (AWS), Terraform/IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, and how engineering teams ship software.

• Experience supporting external audits as a technical lead and remediating findings.

• Working knowledge of risk management frameworks and vendor security assessment.

• Strong written communication — you can turn a control requirement into a clear ticket, runbook, or policy that gets adopted.

• Bonus: relevant certifications (CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001 LI/LA, AWS/GCP security), experience with privacy engineering, or prior work building a GRC function from early stage to audit-ready.