Founding Security Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

Wintermeyer Ventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wintermeyer Ventures is looking for its first dedicated security engineer to help secure cloud infrastructure and customer products. You will build systems enabling engineering teams to run apps securely in their own cloud environments and write production Go code to strengthen Kubernetes clusters.

You will establish the secure engineering function, ship customer-facing security features, and work with customer security teams to meet stringent security standards across IAM, logging, and network

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 4+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, preferably at a venture-backed startup.
• Production Go software engineering experience.
• Hands-on security experience across Kubernetes and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Deep knowledge of IAM, security logging, secrets, network security, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Establish the secure engineering function and guide security practices across the engineering team.
• Build and ship customer-facing security features for teams running apps on cloud infrastructure.
• Write production Go code to strengthen cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters across customer environments.
• Own cloud and container security across IAM, network security, secret management, workload isolation, and security logging.
• Collaborate with customer security engineers to meet security requirements and standards.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

IAM

Security logging

Secrets management

Network security

CI/CD

Vulnerability research

Secure development practices

Terraform

Helm

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Wintermeyer Ventures is looking for its first dedicated security engineer to help secure cloud infrastructure and customer products. You will build systems enabling engineering teams to run apps securely in their own cloud environments and write production Go code to strengthen Kubernetes clusters.

You will establish the secure engineering function, ship customer-facing security features, and work with customer security teams to meet stringent security standards across IAM, logging, and network