Distributed Systems Security Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for driving hardening efforts across every layer of the cluster stack, covering a range of systems at the bare metal, virtualized, and k8s containerized levels.

• Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments, covering everything from secure boot configurations to workload identity in k8s pods
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions improving the overall security maturity of the environment
• Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack, outlining trust boundaries and the interplay between first and third-party mechanisms
• Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning
• Balance engineering outcomes with security controls, enabling the company to deliver securely quickly

What they're looking for

• 8-10 years of experience with heterogenous compute environments, kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security
• 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters)
• Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments
• Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern k8s deployments as well as bare metal instances
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus

Tech stack

• Kubernetes
• AWS