Head of Security

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. While running Palantir’s US national security business, our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless.

At Private Tech, we are not just another cellular service provider; we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that starts with the devices in your pocket. We are building a cellular network that helps citizens, including those responsible for our nation’s security, regain control of their own data.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with are among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more. We have raised money from Andreessen Horowitz and other top-tier VCs, and are excited to grow the team.

The Team

We are relentless builders, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible and bringing to life ideas that have never before existed. Innovation is at the core of everything we do. At Private Tech, we trust our team to deliver greatness and empower them to make a profound impact. As a member of our team, you will collaborate seamlessly with our diverse group of talented engineers and other team members, enjoying dynamic interactions with colleagues from across the organization.

The Role

Private Tech is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Security to develop and implement a comprehensive IT security strategy and ensure the protection of our customers' data and privacy. As the Head of Security, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing a robust security framework that addresses the unique needs of both government and consumer customers. Your expertise will be instrumental in aligning our security practices with relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase- be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.

• Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.

• Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.

• Be accountable to critical deadlines, and enjoy knocking them out of the park with the support of a high-performing team.

• Push the envelope! We are using very new technology in novel ways.

• Work in person! While we all take work-from-home days and there are no facetime requirements or set hours here, our default work location is our DC or NY offices. We enjoy the informal culture and serendipity that in-person work enables.

• We offer competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive IT security strategy: Design and implement an overarching security strategy that addresses the specific needs of both government and consumer customers. Align the strategy with relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices, such as ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST SP 800 series, and CJIS.

• Establish and enforce security policies and procedures: Create and maintain robust security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure compliance with applicable privacy regulations and security controls.

• Conduct risk assessments: Perform comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities. Develop and implement mitigation strategies to address identified risks, considering the specific privacy concerns of consumer customers, government security requirements, and guidelines.

• Implement secure architecture and infrastructure: Collaborate with the engineering and infrastructure teams to design, deploy, and maintain a secure MVNO platform. Select appropriate security technologies and solutions that meet both government security requirements and consumer privacy expectations.

• Manage security incidents and investigations: Lead investigations into security incidents, data breaches, unauthorized access, and other potential security breaches. Develop and implement incident response plans that align with both government incident reporting requirements, as specified in FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST SP 800 series, and CJIS, and consumer privacy expectations.

• Build and lead a security team as the company grows: Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of security professionals with expertise in both government and consumer security practices. Provide guidance, training, and development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge in both domains and ensure compliance with relevant frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field. Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC are highly desirable.

• Extensive experience in IT security: Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in IT security, including experience in both government and consumer security domains. Familiarity with government security frameworks such as FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST SP 800 series, and CJIS is essential.

• Strong knowledge of security best practices: In-depth understanding of information security concepts, best practices, industry standards, and frameworks. Familiarity with relevant regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and other regional privacy laws.

• Technical expertise: Proficiency in network security, application security, cloud security, encryption, identity and access management, security monitoring, and incident response. Experience with secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices is beneficial.

Our Culture

We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech as well as the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people. Our benefits reflect that– top-tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that we actually use).

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

Telecom Architect

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. We are building a cellular service provider that helps citizens (including those responsible for our nation’s security) regain their personal digital sovereignty, beginning with the devices in their pockets.

We have raised money from Andreessen Horowitz, XYZ, and other top tier VCs, and are growing the team.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more.

The Role

The Telecommunications Architect role at Private Tech exists to establish and lead the overall Technology Platform Architecture Development and Evolution in support of a wireless or wired communication network. Duties included in this role are:

• Responsible for designing mission-critical LTE and 5G hybrid networks.

• Provide detailed documentation and hands-on support when required.

• Designing and deploying a 4G EPC and 5GC core networks to include utility-grade security platforms. This may also include the high-level design of IMS or Mission-Critical interfaces.

You will:

• Develop and lead the implementation of the Enterprise architecture for our 4G/5G Core + OSS/BSS Elements and Key supporting systems.

• Understand architectural concepts, able to work with vendors, question the vendor on decisions they don’t agree with.

• Act as the Technical Authority for the combined LTE and EPC/5GC SA and NSA Core Operating framework and responsible for the design and technical delivery of the LTE EPC and 5G SA and NSA Cores Operating Architecture as well as Interactivity of all Private Tech Stack Applications for Telecom.

• Provide input to High-Level System Designs across 4G/5G Voice and Data Core, whether the designs be done internally or externally.

• Work with local and outsourced Vendor designs and being responsible for design deliveries for LTE EPC /5GC and the core interface to other network elements and solutions

• Validate and create EPC architecture and engineering requirements, network impact assessment, engineering design standards, and alarms and network statistics definition.

• Assist in developing, testing, and implementing advanced data core features such as LTE Mobility Management, Mobility Anchor Handoff, EPC Signaling and Control, Topography Design Support, Roaming Architecture/Design, and IPv4 and IPv6 Core Development.

• Assist in defining engineering and planning rules for the MME (Mobility Management Entity), SGW (Serving Gateway), and the PGW (PDN Gateway) as well as their 5G Counterparts.

• Responsible for developing product requirements, feature requirements, systems, and performance analysis, conduct deep-dive sessions on Openstack/Kubernetes VM and Container-based virtualization strategies.

• Responsible for the development of product requirements, feature requirements, systems, and performance analysis.

• Analyzing the requirements, converting them into system requirements, and capturing detail design for the development team.

• Responsible for analyzing and troubleshooting issues reported from customer labs and production.

• Provides technical support and create compelling technical and commercial solutions to help achieve the assigned sales goals and business objectives.

• Translate and communicate complex technical design considerations between the Vender team and Utility network team

• Make independent decisions on core network-related design, security policies, and procedures based on budget impact, system utilization, and network security for optimal efficiency.

• Develop, define, and refine processes and procedures for making network changes to services impacting core network equipment.

• Work with vendors on the high-level and low-level designs and approval responsibility for those designs.

• Develop, maintain, and provide risk assessment tools/techniques and perform studies to determine the risk range associated with various projects.

Qualifications

Required

• BS or MS in Engineering or technical degree or an equivalent combination of highly related experience and education.

• 8+ years of experience in the wireless industry

• A passion for working on new technologies in a fast-paced and frequently changing environment.

• Must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization through conventional methods (verbal and written).

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact with technical and nontechnical teams

• Hands on experience with 5G core network design and implementation, including how 5G differs in scope and technology from previous generations.

• Knowledge and/or documented work experience in the following core functions: SMF / UPF / AMF / NRF / NSSF / PCF / UDM / AUSF / MME, SAEGW, SPGW, or ePDG.

• Cloud Native Architecture experience including micro services and containerization.

• Proven work experience in 5G / CUPS / LTE.

• General understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as HTTP, DNS, SRV6, TCP/IP, ICMP and load balancing.

• Extensive understanding in 5G ORAN / vRAN split functions (7-2x, RU, DU, CU, CP, UP...)

• Extensive understanding and experience in RAN/vRAN software architectures in a virtualized environment.

• Extensive understanding of RF Radio operations over eCPRI interfaces. Includes CSR, DU and timing configurations.

• Extensive understanding of software systems/services running virtualized ORAN functions.

• Understanding of latency considerations and issues from gNB to Data Center locations.

• Understanding and experience with virtualized networks, orchestration, and automation across a large network architecture.

• Thorough understanding of vRAN/ORAN architecture described in 3GPP standards (Rel 15 & 16).

• RF Design, Optimization and performance improvement experience is a plus

• Deep understanding of LTE, VoLTE, 5G VoNR L2/L3 call flows with ability to understand and analyze traces (PCAP, GNB traces)

Our Culture

We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. We are building a cellular service provider that helps citizens (including those responsible for our nation’s security) regain their personal digital sovereignty, beginning with the devices in their pockets.

We have raised money from Andreessen Horowitz, XYZ, and other top tier VCs, and are growing the team.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more.

The Team

Our engineering team has decades of experience solving deeply technical problems up and down the stack. Engineering is the main effort of the business– building things that have never existed before is what we do.

The Role

We are leaning on you to build the infrastructure and run the systems that power our cellular service provider: our mobile core, IMS, and OSS/BSS stack. You will grow the team that keeps a watchful eye on our system’s capacity and performance. Our cloud-based stack must be reliable, performant, and most importantly for our customers, secure. The Private Tech brand promises a heightened level of security, and we will seek certifications and accreditations that prove we are keeping that promise. In addition to a history of SRE excellence, a background in one or more of the following is a plus: telecommunications, privacy preserving technologies, cryptography, FedRamp.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase! Be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable. No one has built something like this before.

• Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed over the last 15 years as smartphone adoption has grown and mobile network interconnectivity has become more permissive.

• Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.

We’re offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.

Qualifications

Required

• 6+ years of software engineering / SRE experience.

• Desire to engage with the leadership team on integrating engineering equities with the rest of the business to achieve a successful launch.

• Fluency in Java/Kotlin, Golang, Rust or similar language.

• Familiarity with Amazon cloud services and ecosystem.

• Experience with building and/or setting up development, debugging, and monitoring tools.

• Experience designing, building, and delivering high availability systems and infrastructure.

• Passion for privacy and national security.

Preferred

• Familiarity with mobile technologies like the IP media subsystem (IMS), 4G/5G mobile core network functions, SIP, and/or webRTC.

• Experience with cloud native orchestration tools and frameworks such as Terraform,

• Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, or CloudFormation.

• Experience managing redundant, high availability multi-site deployments.

• Experience organizing documentation to support security accreditation (FedRamp, ATO processes, etc).

• Experience building and managing a high performing engineering team from scratch.

Our Culture

We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

Business Operations Manager

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Empowering citizens with strong technology to enable privacy is key to realizing the full value of the internet and mobile devices. And we won’t sacrifice user experience along the way.

We have raised money from Andreesen Horowitz and XYZ, and are growing the team.

The Role

This is our first business operations hire. The company is in a period of rapid growth, and we are bringing someone on to help scale our business processes to keep up.

From day one, you will work directly with the CEO to begin taking over large pieces of our financial, legal, marketing, talent, and office operations. Your job is to examine existing systems critically and improve them where they need it, to create new systems where none exist, and ensure that we can keep growing and building towards our launch later this year.

Autonomy is a must, creativity is encouraged, and there is enormous growth potential in this role.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded early-stage startup. We’re building 0-1 and that’s hard. Be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.

• Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed over the last 15 years as smartphone adoption has grown, and as the AdTech industry has grown with it.

• Build a company focused on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.

This role is hybrid, based in our office just outside Washington, DC in Rosslyn, VA. We value in person interactions and culture, and so do not offer fully remote work. The baseline expectation is 3 days per week in the office. We are opening a New York office soon, and some travel to New York will likely be required.

We offer competitive salary, equity to all employees, and have excellent benefits including a $0 PPO health plan, 401(k) matching, and generous vacation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant operations experience, or an MBA from a respected university.

• Excellent execution, precise communications, and a knack for systemization.

• A desire to grow with the role, but a belief that no task is too small.

• Bonus points for familiarity with the SaaS solutions that run a business: Rippling, Brex, Atlassian, Slack, etc.

Our Culture

• We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

Senior Software Developer (Full Stack)

Senior Software Developer

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. Our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices while running Palantir’s US Intelligence Community business. 

We are building a cellular service provider that helps citizens (including those responsible for our nation’s security) regain their personal digital sovereignty, beginning with the devices in their pockets. We have raised money from XYZ, Andreessen Horowitz, and other top tier VCs, and are growing the team.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more.

The Team

Our engineering team has decades of experience solving deeply technical problems up and down the stack. Engineering is the main effort of the business– building things that have never existed before is what we do. We seek builders and hackers, value creativity, and trust our engineers to do great things. You’ll report directly to our head of engineering, and enjoy fluid interactions with the rest of the engineering team and the broader company.

The Role

As a senior software developer you will own major components of the privacy-focused mobile stack we are building to power our cellular service. You’ll work directly with the head of engineering and the head of product to formalize the “what” and the “why” of your workstream, and will have enormous autonomy over the “how.”

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Dive into a well-funded but early-stage startup. We’re in a scrappy phase, be comfortable getting a little uncomfortable.

• Reclaim some of the personal privacy we have all sacrificed as smartphone adoption has grown.

• Flex your technical skills on hard, important problems with serious implications for consumer privacy and national security.

• Be accountable to critical deadlines, and enjoy knocking them out of the park because you’re surrounded by a high performing team.

• Push the envelope- we are using very new technology in novel ways.

• Work in person! There are no facetime requirements or set hours here, and we all take work from home days. But our default work location is our DC or NY office, and we enjoy the informal culture and serendipity that in-person work enables.

We’re offering competitive salary, benefits, and equity with early-stage upside.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Working knowledge of modern, strongly-typed coding languages.

• Passion for privacy and national security.

• 3+ years of professional experience with building production software.

• Fluency in C++, Java, Golang or similar language.

Preferred

• Familiarity with mobile technologies like eSIM, eUICC, and 4G/5G mobile core.

• Interest in how hardware interacts with software on mobile devices.

• Cloud infrastructure experience.

• Native-cloud based orchestration experience like Terraform and Kubernetes.

• Fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous, and systems programming.

Our culture 

• We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

Product Manager

The Company

Private Tech was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. Our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices while running Palantir’s US Intelligence Community business. 

We are building a cellular service provider that helps citizens (including those responsible for our nation’s security) regain their personal digital sovereignty, beginning with the devices in their pockets. We have raised money from XYZ, Andreessen Horowitz, and other top tier VCs, and are growing the team.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with is among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more.

The Team

Our product and engineering teams have decades of experience solving deeply technical problems up and down the stack. Engineering is the main effort of the business– building things that have never existed before is what we do. We seek builders and hackers, value creativity, and trust our engineers to do great things.

The Role

The Product Manager role at Private Tech will report to the Head of Product and be the second product hire at the company. You will be responsible for the entire product lifecycle in a variety of problem-spaces that touch the entire customer journey involved with mobile services, privacy, and security. You will have to fully understand the business objectives and make sound risk-based decisions to succeed.

Our customers are end users, but they will also be organizations (government and enterprise), and this job must be able to balance delivering solutions while connecting the dots between the customer's pain point and the business.

Qualifications

Required:

• 2+ years experience as a product manager or equivalent experience.

• A leader (you must be comfortable with decision-making and leading cross-functional teams)

• Adaptable (this is a start-up)

• Learn Rapidly (new domains and technology)

• Experienced (a PM who knows how to build products considering value risk, usability risk, feasibility risk, and business viability risk)

• Customer-focused (focus on the problems that matter most)

• Passionate about privacy & security

• Data-driven

Preferred:

• Ideally, you’ve worked in the tech sector or telecom industry and have 0 to 1 experience

• Based in NYC or DC

Our culture:

• We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech and the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people, and our benefits reflect that– top tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that people actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

Apply using this link.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.