Platform engineering startup helping teams run cloud-native infrastructure without the usual complexity

Founding Security Engineer

New YorkOn-site$220K - $320K4+ yearsReferral bonus eligible
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You'll spend Monday reviewing Terraform modules for a new multi-tenant isolation scheme, Tuesday tracing how a container escape in one customer cluster might propagate, and Wednesday pairing with the infrastructure team to harden our CI/CD pipelines before they touch three major cloud providers. This is ground-floor security work: no inherited legacy systems, no ticking down a compliance checkbox list someone else wrote. You're building the trust layer that lets engineering teams sleep through pager alerts.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years in infrastructure or application security, with substantial hands-on experience in containerized environments
  • Deep fluency with Kubernetes threat models, from admission controllers to runtime forensics
  • Production experience securing at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure; multi-cloud exposure strongly preferred
  • Solid Go programming skills—enough to read, write, and audit code that runs close to the metal
  • Willingness to work on-site in New York and help shape security culture at an early-stage company

Tech stack

GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureTerraformDockerK8s

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