Security Engineer – Cloud & Silicon Infrastructure

Annapurna Labs; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna Labs in Austin, TX is seeking a Security Engineer to own the security posture of cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting silicon development. You will partner with ML Infrastructure engineers to secure the infrastructure relied upon by hundreds of chip designers.

You will triage vulnerabilities, automate patching, onboard vendors securely, and enforce strict access controls across cloud accounts. This role emphasizes proactive security, automation, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 4+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• 5+ years of identifying security issues and developing remediation plans.
• Experience identifying security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques in industry context.
• Knowledge of at least two languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• 4+ years of troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks via command line tools.
• Experience in scripting, programming, and security code reviews in a common language.
• Growing expertise in threat modeling and secure-by-default design.

Responsibilities

• Own vulnerability management backlog end to end; triage, coordinate remediation, and drive reduction of long-standing findings.
• Keep server fleets up to date with critical security patches; build and improve patching pipelines and cadences.
• Run third-party security assessments for new vendors and design isolated partner environments with least-privilege access.
• Design and audit IAM across multiple cloud accounts; manage roles, SCPs, Kerberos, and VPN access.
• Build security automation: dashboards, runbooks, and AI-assisted agents using AWS services and IaC.
• Review infrastructure designs for security exposure using STRIDE, data flows, and TLS management.
• Produce weekly security status updates with metrics on findings, SLAs, and backlogs.

Skills

Mentor / Tech lead

Scripting & security coding

Security code review

Threat modeling knowledge

AWS cloud security

Scala/Java/Python/C/C++/Go

Troubleshooting & log analysis

Tools

AWS

Terraform / CloudFormation

Ansible

GuardDuty / Security Hub

CDK / Terraform / CloudFormation

Job description

Annapurna Labs in Austin, TX is seeking a Security Engineer to own the security posture of cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting silicon development. You will partner with ML Infrastructure engineers to secure the infrastructure relied upon by hundreds of chip designers.

You will triage vulnerabilities, automate patching, onboard vendors securely, and enforce strict access controls across cloud accounts. This role emphasizes proactive security, automation, and collaboration across teams.