Founding Security Engineer

Join a cloud infrastructure company as its first dedicated security engineer, working across internal security and customer-facing product security. You will build systems that help engineering teams securely run applications in their own cloud environments.

• Establish the secure engineering function and guide security practices across the engineering team.
• Build and ship customer-facing security features for teams running applications on cloud infrastructure.
• Write production Go code to strengthen cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters across customer environments.
• Own cloud and container security across IAM, network security, secret management, workload isolation, and security logging.
• Work directly with customer security engineers to understand requirements and help ensure infrastructure meets their security standards.

• At least 4 years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including experience building infrastructure at a venture-backed infrastructure startup.
• Production software engineering experience, with proficiency in Go and experience writing software to manage infrastructure.
• Hands-on security experience across Kubernetes and multiple major cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Depth in areas such as IAM, security logging, secrets, network security, Helm, Terraform, or CI/CD.
• Application security experience, including authentication and authorization, vulnerability research, and secure development practices.
• Experience contributing to core infrastructure at a cloud platform company or in a high-engineering-bar environment.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical degree.

Base salary is $220,000 to $320,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site in New York, New York, United States.