Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & Security Automation

Pi Security; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pi Security is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind its agentic security platform. You will own production‑grade cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD improvements, and observability to ensure reliable, secure delivery of security workflows.

You will partner with product and backend teams across frontend, backend, data, and AI‑assisted security workflows, while advancing automation, deployment tooling, and security controls.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating cloud infrastructure in production.
• Strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience with modules, remote state, provider configuration, and safe change management.
• Hands‑on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Familiarity with Helm, ingress controllers, load balancers, Kubernetes networking, service accounts, and workload identity patterns.
• Experience operating PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including availability, migrations, backups, and performance basics.
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and cloud‑native tooling.
• Strong security instincts around IAM, secrets, network exposure, least privilege, and production access.
• Ability to write useful automation in Python, TypeScript, Bash, or similar languages.
• Good judgment around production changes, CI/CD safety, rollout strategy, incident response, and operational trade‑offs.
• Ability to work in a fast‑moving startup environment with ownership, autonomy, and good judgment.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve production cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Operate Kubernetes‑based environments, including workloads, networking, ingress, autoscaling, and identity integration.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for application, worker, service, and infrastructure deployments.
• Support core platform services across databases, caches, object storage, container registries, secrets, load balancing, and networking.
• Help operate workflow orchestration, worker infrastructure, asynchronous processing systems, and agentic analysis pipelines.
• Improve observability across logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, and production debugging workflows.
• Harden infrastructure security across IAM, secrets handling, network boundaries, workload identity, and deployment permissions.
• Partner with product and backend engineers across frontend, backend, data, and AI‑assisted security workflows.
• Build and maintain internal platform tooling, runbooks, automation, and deployment workflows.
• Debug production issues across infrastructure, application, worker, and database layers.
• Help create foundation that lets engineering teams ship quickly, safely, and confidently.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

IaC

Kubernetes

Helm & networking

PostgreSQL

Debugging distributed systems

IAM & secrets

Automation scripting

CI/CD & deployment safety

Startup environment

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Docker

Node.js

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Pi Security is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind its agentic security platform. You will own production‑grade cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD improvements, and observability to ensure reliable, secure delivery of security workflows.

You will partner with product and backend teams across frontend, backend, data, and AI‑assisted security workflows, while advancing automation, deployment tooling, and security controls.