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Senior Platform Engineer, Security

200k – 330kSan Francisco, CASecurity EngineeringOnsite5+ YOE
Summary

Founding Platform Engineer, Security building secure multi-tenant infrastructure, golden paths, and automation for Decagon's conversational AI platform. Requires 5+ years infrastructure experience, deep GCP/AWS knowledge, and strong IaC and coding skills.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure, multi-tenant infrastructure that isolates customer data while enabling efficient AI model serving across the platform
  • Build "golden paths" for security including service templates, libraries, terraform policies, and automation so new services are secure and production-ready by default
  • Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps best practices, including reusable modules and policy-as-code
  • Expand and help operate the platforms behind alerting detection, secrets management, IAM, and automated remediation, integrating them cleanly into CI/CD and developer workflows
  • Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams to translate enterprise and compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) into reliable, automated technical controls
  • Participate in security on-call and continuously raise the bar on operability, runbooks, and incident learnings

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure, with meaningful exposure to security or a strong interest in moving deeper into security problems
  • Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS, including compute, networking, IAM, and security services
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar) and a track record of building developer-facing tooling and automation
  • Strong coding ability in at least one systems language (Python, Go, TypeScript) and comfort building paved-path tooling teams actually adopt
  • Experience applying AI-assisted tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, and similar) to make engineers dramatically more effective
  • Experience with secure container deployment, service mesh, and Kubernetes security best practices
  • Observability and incident-response tooling experience (instrumentation, alerting, dashboards), with a bias toward eliminating toil
  • Clear written communication and the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable designs

Nice-to-Haves

  • Track record of being an early or founding platform/infrastructure/security engineer at another company
  • Experience building internal platforms: service templates, paved-road deployment, self-serve environments, or developer portals
  • Security-minded approach to the software supply chain (provenance, secrets, least privilege) and familiarity with static analysis tooling (Semgrep, CodeQL)
  • Experience with detection and response data pipelines (Kafka/Pulsar, Splunk/Panther/RunReveal, or similar)
  • Knowledge of enterprise compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) from an infrastructure and platform perspective

Compensation & Benefits

  • $200K – $330K + equity
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K)
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office
Skills
Google Cloud PlatformAWSTerraformAnsiblePythonGoTypeScriptKubernetesIAMSOC 2ISO 27001GDPR
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