Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will define and implement the security strategy and controls across our hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Embedded within the Platform Security team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, partnering closely with Infosec and Infrastructure teams to secure our cloud infrastructure. Your architectural decisions will directly impact the security of a global platform.

Responsibilities

• Create Paved Roads: Build innovative services and tooling that make the secure path the easiest path, enabling developers to deploy faster and safer.
• Engineer Self-Healing Infrastructure: Architect and scale systems that monitor our cloud posture and automatically enforce a self-healing security baseline.
• Design Secure-by-Default Blueprints: Partner deeply with infrastructure teams to bake threat modeling and secure-by-default patterns into the core DNA of our cloud environments.
• Implement Effective Guardrails: Deploy organizational security controls that protect our developers without slowing them down.
• Advance Detections: Write and optimize detections tailored specifically to our footprint.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience writing and maintaining code in at least one programming language such as Python, Golang, or C#, with an eagerness to learn new languages and technologies.
• Experience with automation, IaC, system hardening, container security concepts, cloud security policy, and observability.
• Deep understanding of cloud service architecture and cloud security concepts.
• Familiarity with container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Understanding of network security concepts and best practices (e.g., enabling secure connectivity between resources, implementing egress controls).
• Collaborative team player thoughtful of build vs. buy decisions and comfortable navigating ambiguity.