Staff GRC Engineer

ezCater

Staff GRC Engineer enhancing governance, risk, and compliance at ezCater’s food tech platform. Driving operational quality and ensure data security in cloud environments.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $165,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead control program maturity
Build continuous control monitoring and automation
Expand data security policy and program quality
Drive operational quality improvements
Lead through influence and systems thinking

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ experience in security GRC, compliance, risk, or security program work in a SaaS or cloud-native environment, including meaningful ownership of control design, testing, and program improvement.
Strong experience with security compliance frameworks such as ISO-27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, ITGC, and PCI-DSS, including how to translate framework requirements into controls that work in real systems and teams.
Demonstrated ability to automate or instrument parts of a compliance or assurance program through scripting, APIs, dashboards, platform configuration, or other technical approaches.
Implementation of engineering system guardrails for ensuring compliance utilizing Policy-as-Code (Terraform) or secure configurations of platform systems within cloud hosted environments (AWS, GitHub, etc.)
Experience building or improving data security governance, classification, handling rules, or related control practices across business systems, data platforms, or collaboration environments.
Familiarity with governing and securing AI/Agentic systems and business processing.
Strong written communication and cross-functional influence skills, with the ability to explain controls, trade-offs, and program expectations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Able to collaborate closely with engineers and technical teams to design controls as code, configuration, workflow, or monitoring instead of relying only on policy documents and manual checklists.
Strong systems thinker who can break ambiguous governance problems into workable operating models, measurable outcomes, and implementation steps.
Comfortable balancing strategic design work with operational execution when the program needs direct hands-on support.
Someone who improves process quality, identifies gaps between teams, and drives implementation of better ways of working.
Comfortable leveraging AI tooling and automated workflows to increase scale and velocity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Market competitive salary
Stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot
12 paid holidays
Flexible PTO
401K with ezCater match
Health/dental/FSA
Long-term disability insurance
Mental health and family planning resources
Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
Wicked awesome co-workers
Employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office

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Hard Skills & Tools

security GRCcompliancerisk managementcontrol designcontrol testingprogram improvementautomationPolicy-as-CodeTerraformdata security governance

Soft Skills

written communicationcross-functional influencecollaborationsystems thinkingprocess improvementstrategic designoperational executionproblem-solvingadaptabilityinfluence

Certifications

ISO-27001NIST CSFSOC 2ITGCPCI-DSS