Distributed Systems Security Engineer for HPC & Kubernetes

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Distributed Systems Security Engineer to build out security controls for on-prem and cloud clusters. You will drive hardening across bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes environments to raise the security maturity of our platform.

The ideal candidate brings 8–10 years of distributed systems security and HPC experience, strong hands-on engineering skills, and the ability to communicate complex security concepts to non-technical audiences in a fast-paced startup setting.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience with heterogeneous compute environments, kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security.
• 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters).
• Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments.
• Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern k8s deployments as well as bare metal instances.
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to make security concepts approachable for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments, covering everything from secure boot configurations to workload identity in k8s pods
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions improving the overall security maturity of the environment
• Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack, outlining trust boundaries and the interplay between first and third-party mechanisms
• Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning
• Balance engineering outcomes with security controls, enabling the company to deliver securely quickly
• Document security posture and strategy for technical and nontechnical audiences from both 1p and 3p perspectives

Skills

Kubernetes hardening

HPC clusters

On-prem/cloud security

Distributed compute security

Security communication

Threat modeling

Heterogeneous compute environments

AWS knowledge

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Distributed Systems Security Engineer to build out security controls for on-prem and cloud clusters. You will drive hardening across bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes environments to raise the security maturity of our platform.

The ideal candidate brings 8–10 years of distributed systems security and HPC experience, strong hands-on engineering skills, and the ability to communicate complex security concepts to non-technical audiences in a fast-paced startup setting.