About the company
Our client is a cloud infrastructure software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Write production code while establishing a security practice from the ground up. The work covers protecting internal systems, building security capabilities for external users, and advising technical counterparts on their security expectations.
What you'll do
- Set up a new security engineering practice and define its priorities over time.
- Encourage sound security habits across a compact, flat engineering team.
- Design and release security capabilities that external users can rely on.
- Write production Go code that strengthens infrastructure running across several cloud providers and container orchestration environments.
- Take full ownership of cloud and container protection, covering access controls, network defenses, credential handling, isolation between workloads and audit logging.
- Partner with technical security staff at client organizations to understand their needs, earn confidence and make sure the platform satisfies their standards.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Currently ships production application code as a software engineer, rather than working mainly in infrastructure operations.
- Practical experience securing cloud and container environments, including identity and access controls, orchestration platforms, logging and credential management.
- Application security background, including user authentication and authorization, vulnerability research and secure coding practices.
- Proficiency in Go.
- Experience working with more than one major cloud provider.
- History of building or contributing to core infrastructure at a cloud platform business, or at a company known for a very high engineering bar.
Bonus points
- Prior experience as an early security hire or as an engineer building security features for external users.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a comparable technical field.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 220,000 to 320,000 per year
- Equity
- Flexible time off
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in the office
- Full-time
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