What You’ll Do
- Own the Stack: Secure everything from our Kubernetes clusters on the cloud to our SaaS integrations and developer workflows.
- Usher in the Future: Articulate and execute on a vision for what security should be in the age of LLMs giving both us and attackers increasing leverage.
- Engineer for Security: Build internal tooling and CI/CD automations that catch vulnerabilities before they ever hit production.
- Architect & Model: Lead threat modeling sessions and secure code reviews, ensuring we design "secure-by-default" APIs and deployments.
- Harden the Perimeter: Take a first-principles approach to hardening authentication and access control across all internal and external surfaces.
- Red Team: Proactively probe for vulnerabilities and lead the remediation.
- Lead the Bug Bounty: Primary owner for standing up, launching, and managing our Bug Bounty Program, triaging reports, and driving remediation.
- Respond & Remediate: Investigate vulnerabilities, lead incident response, orchestrate pen testing, and run blameless postmortems that result in systemic change.
- Evangelize: Translate complex security risks into actionable engineering tasks for peers.
Who You Are
- Startup Native: Thrive in fast-paced 100–300 person environments, prioritize when urgent, comfortable "failing forward".
- Security-First Engineer: 6+ years in software/infrastructure engineering with deep security focus; write code to plug holes.
- Cloud Savvy: Deeply familiar with Google Cloud (GCP), Kubernetes, containerized environments.
- Systems Thinker: Analyze systems for weaknesses in business logic, IAM, codebase.
- Action-Oriented: Track record responding to incidents and leading remediation without being the "no" person.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE)
- Infrastructure: Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code
- Pipeline: Modern CI/CD workflows and SaaS integrations
Compensation
Target salary: $165,000-$200,000. Generous perks including $4000/yr travel stipend, $350/mo productivity stipend, $350/mo AI tools stipend, $150/mo team lunch stipend, $500 one-time home office stipend, up to 100% health insurance coverage, equity.