# Platform Security Engineer

**Company:** [Supabase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/supabase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Containers, IAM, RBAC, Network Policies, Threat Modeling, Container Security, Cloud Security, Seccomp, Apparmor, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Secures Supabase’s cloud platform, Kubernetes environments, containers, and infrastructure by conducting risk assessments, strengthening controls, and building scalable security guardrails. Requires senior-level platform or cloud security experience with deep AWS, Kubernetes, container, and Linux expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Identify and reduce security risks across AWS, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and platform infrastructure.
- Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments for platform and infrastructure systems.
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams to design practical controls and secure-by-default patterns.
- Improve Kubernetes and container security, including workload isolation, RBAC, admission control, secrets, network policies, and runtime hardening.
- Assess container runtime and Linux isolation risks, including capabilities, seccomp/AppArmor, namespaces, cgroups, and container escape scenarios.
- Strengthen AWS security across IAM, account boundaries, network controls, logging, detection, encryption, and service configuration.
- Build scalable automation, guardrails, paved paths, detections, secure defaults, and review frameworks.
- Prioritize material platform risks over purely theoretical risks and coordinate security efforts across complex projects and stakeholders.

## Requirements
- Senior-level experience in platform security, cloud security, infrastructure security, container security, or security engineering.
- Deep practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux security fundamentals.
- Experience in large cloud environments, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, developer platforms, SaaS platforms, or high-scale infrastructure teams.
- Strong understanding of identity, networking, workload isolation, runtime security, secrets, software supply chain security, and blast radius.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences in an asynchronous environment.
- Ability to manage security efforts across complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to solve infrastructure security problems, navigate ambiguity, and build guardrails, automation, and secure defaults.

## Benefits
- Fully remote work from anywhere in the world.
- Employee equity through an ESOP.
- Technology allowance.
- Health insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
- Annual company off-sites.
- Flexible asynchronous work.
- Annual professional-development allowance.

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