Senior Software Engineer - GRC
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 8 October 2026.
About the role
Emergent Labs's standard text
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
Emergent Labs's standard text
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Lead
The Role
Emergent is scaling a global B2C product used across 190+ countries. We’re looking for a GRC Lead to build and run our compliance program across security, privacy, AI, and consumer protection.
What You’ll Own
- Certifications & Audits: Own SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related certifications from readiness through audit and renewal.
- Privacy & Data Compliance: Drive GDPR and global privacy requirements, including data residency, DSARs, DPAs, and records of processing.
- AI Governance: Define controls for emerging AI regulations, including the EU AI Act, and their application to autonomous code generation and execution.
- GRC Program: Own policies, controls, evidence collection, vendor/subprocessor risk, and audit readiness.
- Engineering Partnership: Translate compliance requirements into practical, scalable controls that engineering teams can actually implement.
What We’re Looking For
- 5 to 7+ years in GRC, security compliance, privacy, or risk
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2 / ISO 27001
- Strong understanding of GDPR and global privacy
- Experience managing audits, vendors, controls, and compliance programs end to end
- Ability to work closely with Engineering, Security, Product, and Legal teams
What Sets You Apart
- You think in systems, not checklists
- Experience with AI governance, EU AI Act, or cloud-native products
- Comfortable building GRC programs from the ground up
- Prefer practical, scalable controls over paperwork
Why Emergent
- Build governance for AI systems that build software
- Operate at global scale across 190+ countries
- Work directly with founders and core engineering, security, and product teams
- Solve emerging challenges at the intersection of AI, security, privacy, and regulation
What this role asks for
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Read against Emergent Labs's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 13 open in Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in September: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (9 of 13), Golang (7 of 13), CI/CD (6 of 13), Kubernetes (6 of 13), AWS (5 of 13), GCP (5 of 13), JavaScript (4 of 13)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer - Application Security posted Sep 18
- Staff Engineer - Security posted Sep 18
- Software Engineering Intern posted Sep 16
- Staff Engineer - Backend posted Jun 15
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Apr 20
- Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security posted Mar 27
- Senior AI Research Engineer posted Jan 25
- Engineering Manager posted Jan 20
- Staff Engineer - Frontend posted Dec 11
- Software Engineer - Infrastructure posted Sep 25
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Sep 25
- Senior Software Engineer - Frontend posted Sep 25
From the team and dates on Emergent Labs's own job board.
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