Software Engineer - Platform Security

Neo4j Inc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j Inc is seeking experienced engineers with a security mindset to enhance security in cloud environments. Your role includes developing controls in Azure, AWS, and GCP, focusing on secure design and collaborating with various teams.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in security engineering, Kubernetes, and programming languages like Go, Java, or Python. This position offers the chance to significantly impact our security posture and work with modern cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes.
• Background in Cloud, Infrastructure, and/or Network security.
• Hands-on experience in a security engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
• Enhance product security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate to implement Cloud/K8s native policies and procedures.

Skills

Containers

Kubernetes

Infrastructure‑as‑Code

Go

Java

Python

Job description

Role Overview

We’re hiring experienced engineers with a security mindset to expand our tooling, add new guardrails, and partner with Aura teams on secure design.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS and/or GCP to enforce the security baseline at scale, integrating with open-source and vendor tools as needed.
• Enhance product security along the software development lifecycle by creating paved roads and defining additional security and software excellence requirements for containerised services running on multiple managed Kubernetes clusters.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the Platform and Engineering teams by providing guidance on cloud and k8s services, secure infrastructure‑as‑code, modern secure AuthZ/AuthN techniques (SPIFFE) and secrets management solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams to define and implement Cloud/K8s native policies and procedures (Kyverno, Pod Security Standards).
• Conduct security assessments, audits and architecture reviews in order to introduce new cloud controls in the platform and make recommendations to improve the overall security posture.
• Support the incident detection and response process by maintaining cloud monitoring and alerting tooling and developing scripts needed for troubleshooting and resolution of incidents and security issues.

Ideal Candidate

• Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure‑as‑Code and programming languages such as Go, Java and/or Python.
• Proven experience in a security engineering role with hands‑on technical involvement, and exposure to decision making processes.
• An active interest and background in Cloud, Infrastructure and/or Network security.
• Proven track record with cloud‑native authentication mechanisms (OIDC, OAuth2), secrets management, admission controllers, service mesh, mTLS and cloud based IAM solutions.
• Familiarity with securing and hardening K8s clusters, containerised applications and Linux hosts.
• Demonstrated ability to architect cloud‑native applications including the design of APIs and microservices on containers.