Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Security

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About the role

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer securing AuthZed’s cloud infrastructure and authorization platform, including SpiceDB. Building Kubernetes guardrails, supply-chain security, vulnerability management, and incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Operate, build, and evolve Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure powering AuthZed's managed services
  • Advance infrastructure security across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and service-to-service communication
  • Strengthen security across the software supply chain, including CI/CD, dependencies, container images, build artifacts, provenance, vulnerability scanning, and deployment controls
  • Develop automated guardrails, policies, and secure defaults for the engineering platform
  • Improve vulnerability identification, prioritization, and remediation across containers, dependencies, infrastructure, and cloud services
  • Expand security telemetry, logging, alerting, detection capabilities, and incident-response playbooks
  • Participate in the SRE on-call rotation and lead or contribute to production incidents
  • Collaborate on architecture and infrastructure design and contribute to threat modeling
  • Shape security engineering strategy, architecture decisions, customer security requirements, and AuthZed's security posture

Requirements

  • Significant experience operating production systems as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, or Security Engineer
  • Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized production environments
  • Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and its security model
  • Strong understanding of IAM, workload identity, networking, TLS/PKI, encryption, secrets management, and cloud-native security
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code; Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CDK
  • Experience designing, operating, and securing CI/CD and software delivery pipelines
  • Strong understanding of Linux and container security fundamentals
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production incident response
  • Strong software engineering skills and an inclination to solve operational and security challenges through automation
  • Strong security judgment and ability to evaluate risk in real-world distributed systems
  • Ability to operate independently, drive projects across engineering boundaries, and provide technical leadership in a small, highly technical organization
  • Experience operating distributed databases or other stateful distributed systems in production is an advantage
  • Experience securing multi-tenant SaaS or cloud infrastructure is an advantage
  • Experience contributing to security architecture, threat modeling, penetration testing, or security assessments is an advantage
  • Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CISSP, or CCSP are an advantage
  • Legally able to work in the U.S. or Canada

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on experience and location
  • Stock options at an early-stage startup
  • Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
  • A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different time zones
  • Twice-yearly travel for team off-sites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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