AI-Driven Cloud Security Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; Denver, Long Beach, San Francisco (CO, CA, CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

True Anomaly seeks a Staff Platform Engineer, Security to build security tooling and controls for cloud environments. You’ll own security projects from design to implementation in Azure and AWS, collaborating with staff engineers on architecture decisions.

You will write production code daily and work in an AI‑native environment to accelerate impact while solving complex security challenges across multi‑cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain security clearance.
• 10+ years of experience securing production cloud environments at scale across Azure and AWS.
• Strong software development skills in Python (preferred) and/or Go with experience building security tooling and automation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across data structures, algorithms, API design, debugging, and multi-language work.
• Strong Terraform skills including module design and infrastructure‑as‑code security best practices.
• Experience building security tooling or automation used by engineering teams.
• Extensive cloud networking knowledge: VPCs/VNets, subnets, NACLs/NSGs, Security Groups, Transit Gateways, VPNs/ExpressConnect.

Responsibilities

• Build security tooling, automation, and services for cloud security—implementing secure patterns for engineering adoption.
• Implement security best practices and provide input on cloud security, IAM, network security, and IaC.
• Maintain security controls across Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Design and manage secure-by-default cloud infrastructure including IAM, network topology, data protection, encryption, and security monitoring.
• Operate PKI infrastructure and Vault as central secrets management platform, including certificate lifecycle management and mTLS.

Skills

Python

Go

Terraform

Cloud security

IAM architecture

Kubernetes security

Security tooling

CI/CD security

Threat detection

Encryption

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

CloudFormation

Job description

True Anomaly seeks a Staff Platform Engineer, Security to build security tooling and controls for cloud environments. You’ll own security projects from design to implementation in Azure and AWS, collaborating with staff engineers on architecture decisions.

You will write production code daily and work in an AI‑native environment to accelerate impact while solving complex security challenges across multi‑cloud deployments.