Staff Security Engineer, Infrastructure
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You will secure cloud, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, GPU compute, and data systems. You will implement identity, secrets, encryption, and least-privilege controls; protect model weights and customer data; automate security guardrails through infrastructure as code; identify and remediate risks; and partner with engineering functions to enable secure-by-default systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security controls for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and GPU workloads
- Implement machine identity, workload authentication, secrets management, encryption, and least-privilege access
- Apply Zero Trust principles across infrastructure
- Protect model weights, inference endpoints, and customer data
- Design secure data-access pathways and multi-tenant isolation mechanisms
- Build automated infrastructure and CI/CD security guardrails
- Use infrastructure as code to enforce secure defaults
- Identify and remediate infrastructure security gaps through automation
- Identify and mitigate risks across infrastructure layers
- Drive network isolation, encryption, and secure service communication projects
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and ML teams on shift-left security
Requirements
- 8+ years in security engineering, infrastructure, or SRE
- Cloud security knowledge in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Networking knowledge, including segmentation, firewalls, and Zero Trust
- Linux systems and container security knowledge, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience building or securing production infrastructure at scale
- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, secrets management, cryptography, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors
- Ability to design multilayer security controls
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language
- Infrastructure-as-code experience, preferably Terraform
- Experience with GPU infrastructure or ML systems
- Experience with multi-tenant platform isolation
- Experience with service mesh or zero-trust architectures
Benefits
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance to San Francisco
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Regular team events and offsites
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