Cloud Security Engineer — Secure, Scalable Infra & AI Platforms

AI Chopping Block; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is seeking a Security Engineer to elevate security across our cloud infrastructure, developer platform, and product ecosystem. You will partner with the security lead to secure cloud environments, automate security, and embed security into engineering workflows.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, platform, product, and application teams to ensure scalable, secure systems that meet modern compliance demands. This is a high-impact role requiring strong cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience securing cloud-native, multi-account AWS environments.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) governance and security reviews.
• Strong understanding of IAM, network security, and encryption practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale IaC governance strategies that embed security while enabling developer velocity.
• Operate and tune CSPM tooling and coordinate remediation with engineering teams.
• Investigate security events, triage incidents, identify root causes, and own remediation.
• Architect secure AWS account structures—landing zones, multi-account patterns, network segmentation, cross-account roles.
• Design and implement network security architectures using SGs, NACLs, subnets, routing, and egress controls.
• Establish secure-by-default patterns across Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Design, maintain, and govern IAM role and policy architectures for human and machine identities.
• Implement encryption everywhere (data-at-rest and in-transit) with KMS and related services.
• Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and secure design assessments for new and existing systems.
• Assess and secure AI/ML product architectures, including trust boundaries and data flow in training/inference pipelines.
• Build secure automation through Python, AWS-native services, and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Own complex security projects end-to-end from discovery to rollout and ownership.
• Align cloud security strategy with frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS benchmarks.

Skills

Python

Go

AWS

Terraform

IAM

Network security

CSPM

Security automation

Cloud architecture

Data encryption

Tools

Terraform

AWS native services

Job description

Snorkel AI is seeking a Security Engineer to elevate security across our cloud infrastructure, developer platform, and product ecosystem. You will partner with the security lead to secure cloud environments, automate security, and embed security into engineering workflows.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, platform, product, and application teams to ensure scalable, secure systems that meet modern compliance demands. This is a high-impact role requiring strong cross-team collaboration.