[Hiring] Compliance Engineer @Retell AI

Role Description

We are seeking a Compliance Engineer (Contract) to help build and own the systems, processes, and technical controls that keep Retell secure, compliant, and enterprise-ready. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Security, Legal, and customer-facing teams to ensure our infrastructure and products meet the security and compliance requirements of the world’s largest companies.

This is a highly hands-on role. You’ll translate compliance requirements into technical controls, automate evidence collection, identify gaps, and help build the systems that allow Retell to move quickly without compromising security or compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Compliance Engineering: Build and maintain technical controls across security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and other enterprise requirements.
• Automation: Automate compliance workflows, evidence collection, access reviews, security checks, and other repetitive processes.
• Security Controls: Partner with Engineering and Security to implement and monitor controls around access management, infrastructure, data protection, logging, and vulnerability management.
• Audit Readiness: Support audits by owning technical evidence collection and working with auditors to address compliance requirements.
• Enterprise Security: Work with customers and internal teams to respond to security questionnaires, compliance requirements, and technical due diligence.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps in our compliance and security programs and build scalable systems to address them.

Qualifications

• You have a strong technical background in software engineering, security, infrastructure, IT, or a related field.
• You’re interested in compliance, security, and how technology can be used to build scalable compliance programs.
• You’re comfortable learning new security and compliance frameworks and turning requirements into practical technical solutions.
• You have strong scripting or programming skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash, or a similar language.
• You understand security fundamentals such as IAM, encryption, networking, logging, vulnerability management, and cloud security.
• You’re highly analytical and enjoy solving ambiguous problems.
• You’re comfortable working across Engineering, Security, Legal, and customer-facing teams.
• You communicate clearly and can explain technical and compliance concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or other compliance frameworks is a plus.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Vanta, Drata, Wiz, Okta, or similar tools is a plus.

Job Details

• Employment Type: Full-Time or Part-Time 1099 Contractor
• Location: Remote
• Compensation: $6000–$7500 USD/Month, based on experience
• Hours: Must be open to working some overlapping hours with our Pacific Time team and customers.