Solutions Engineer
About the job
- At least 4 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Security Engineer, or similar.
- Strong understanding of modern software development workflows and continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
- Exposure to application security, vulnerability management, static analysis, or secure software development lifecycle practices.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers and executive stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
- Located in or willing to relocate to San Francisco is preferred.
- Own and lead full-cycle technical evaluations from discovery through proof of value and executive readout.
- Partner with security and engineering stakeholders to define success criteria tied to vulnerability detection quality, false-positive reduction, and remediation speed.
- Demonstrate how depthfirst differs from legacy static application security testing and software composition analysis tools through contextual code understanding, reachability and exploitability analysis, and repeatable results.
- Work hands-on in customer continuous integration and continuous delivery environments, including GitHub, GitLab, and Jenkins, to ensure seamless deployment and minimal developer disruption.
- Translate technical validation into executive-ready return-on-investment narratives for chief information security officers, chief technology officers, and vice presidents of engineering.
- Act as the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering and shape roadmap priorities based on real-world feedback.
- Help build and scale the solutions engineering function, including playbooks, demo environments, and repeatable evaluation frameworks.
- Genuine excitement about artificial intelligence and security.
- Mission-driven orientation.
About the company
DepthFirst builds autonomous agents that understand a company’s code, business logic, and infrastructure end-to-end to surface security weaknesses and propose fixes that are ready to merge. The platform, called General Security Intelligence, uses AI agents to analyze an organization’s codebase and systems, identify vulnerabilities, and suggest actionable patches that can be integrated into the codebase. It stands out from traditional static analysis by delivering more true-positive findings (about 8x higher) and far fewer false positives (roughly 85% fewer), and it shows strong performance on CyberGym benchmarks. Early customers include AngelList, Supabase, Moveworks, Persona, and Lovable. The company aims to speed up secure software development by automatically finding problems and providing ready-to-implement fixes, and it is expanding research, go-to-market efforts, and hiring after a $40 million Series A round in January 2026.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$140.8M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 31, 2026 Series B added $80 million, bringing total funding to $120 million.
- Customers now include ClickUp, Lovable, Supabase, incident.io, Moveworks, and Persona.
- DepthFirst disclosed 12 FFmpeg zero-days using about $1,000 compute, proving efficient research.
What critics are saying
- Snyk, Wiz, and GitHub Security Advisory can copy package-firewall features within months.
- Autonomous remediation mistakes on production code trigger breaches, forcing manual review and slowing sales.
- One missed headline vulnerability destroys trust and freezes enterprise adoption after 2026.
What makes DepthFirst unique
- DepthFirst inspects code, business logic, and infrastructure end-to-end, not isolated alerts.
- Its Dependency Firewall blocks malicious packages before installation across Claude, Codex, and employees.
- Open Defense Initiative plus FFmpeg, Envoy, and Kata partnerships create proprietary vulnerability data.
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5%San Francisco-based depthfirst has launched Dependency Firewall, a product that reviews and blocks malicious open-source packages before they're installed across a company. The system inspects every package download, regardless of who is installing it, and returns a verdict before installation, allowing approved packages through whilst quarantining suspicious ones and blocking malicious code. The firewall addresses growing security risks as attackers exploit open-source trust by publishing packages that mimic popular libraries. Verizon reported that 48% of data breaches in its 2026 DBIR involved ransomware, with malware attacks surging recently. Dependency Firewall uses depthfirst's agentic defence platform, which previously discovered NGINX Rift, an 18-year-old vulnerability. The company has raised $120 million from investors including Meritech Capital, Accel and Forerunner Ventures.
depthfirst, an applied AI security lab, has launched the Open Defense Initiative, committing up to $5 million in platform credits to help open source projects discover and fix vulnerabilities. The programme targets widely deployed infrastructure software where vulnerabilities would have significant downstream impact. The company disclosed it identified 12 previously unknown memory corruption vulnerabilities in FFmpeg using approximately $1,000 in compute, compared to Anthropic's reported $10,000 spend for similar scanning. Some vulnerabilities dated back to 2009, and patches were autonomously generated by depthfirst's platform. The initiative is currently partnering with maintainers of FFmpeg, Envoy and Kata Containers, whilst proactively analysing projects including Linux, OpenSSH and PostgreSQL. depthfirst has raised $120 million from investors including Meritech Capital, Accel and Forerunner Ventures. Maintainers can apply at opendefense.dev.
depthfirst, an applied AI lab on a mission to secure the world’s software, today announced its $80M Series B round, led by Meritech Capital, with participati...
Depthfirst, an AI cybersecurity startup, has raised $80 million at a $580 million valuation, just two months after a $40 million Series A round. The company is developing "General Security Intelligence" to autonomously detect vulnerabilities and defend against malicious AI attacks. Founded in 2024 by former Google Deepmind researcher Andrea Michi, former Databricks security head Qasim Mithani, and ex-Block cybersecurity chief Daniele Perito, Depthfirst builds AI models from scratch using reinforcement learning rather than adapting existing large language models. The company has over 20 customers and claims 300% revenue growth over the past two quarters. Depthfirst is launching its first in-house model this week, targeting security weaknesses in cryptocurrency smart contracts. Meritech Capital led the Series B round, with total funding now exceeding $120 million.
depthfirst, an applied AI lab focused on software security, has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Alt Capital, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, Mantis VC and SV Angel participated, alongside angel investors including Jeff Dean and Kirsten Green. Founded in 2024, depthfirst has developed a General Security Intelligence platform that detects, triages and remediates vulnerabilities across software and infrastructure. The company's AI agents uncover eight times more true-positive vulnerabilities than traditional static analysis tools whilst reducing false positives by 85 per cent. The founding team includes technical leaders from Google DeepMind, Databricks and Faire. The funding will support research and development, go-to-market efforts and hiring across applied research, engineering, product and sales.