Security Platform Engineer: Cloud, IAM & AI Agent Safety

Parallel; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Daily lunch & office snacks

Dinner at the office

Unlimited vacation

Caltrain pass reimbursement

Job summary

Parallel seeks a Senior Security Engineer to build and operate the security foundations protecting production infrastructure, internal systems, and access controls. You will own authentication, authorisation, production hardening, and enforcement from source to workloads, across identity, cloud, Kubernetes, logging, and software supply chains.

You will design secure defaults, enable automation, and define how AI coding agents operate within Parallel’s own infrastructure, including access

Qualifications

• Significant experience building or operating infrastructure or security systems in production cloud environments.
• Deep experience in identity and authorization, cloud and Kubernetes security, or logging and detection platforms.
• Strong cloud, network, secrets management, and workload isolation fundamentals.
• Experience building secure deployment pipelines, including artifact provenance, immutability, secret scanning, and software supply chain controls
• Experience designing centralized logging, alerting, and detection infrastructure across cloud, SaaS, identity, and endpoints
• Strong production coding and automation skills in Terraform, Python, Go, or similar tools
• A track record of shipping security controls across an engineering organization, including making tradeoffs to get them adopted
• Experience with endpoint security, device trust, recovery planning, SOC 2, customer audits, or contractual security requirements is a plus
• Experience securing AI or agentic systems is a plus

Skills

Cloud security

Identity and access

Kubernetes security

Logging and detection

Terraform

Python/Go

Security automation

Production security practices

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Secrets management

Job description

Parallel seeks a Senior Security Engineer to build and operate the security foundations protecting production infrastructure, internal systems, and access controls. You will own authentication, authorisation, production hardening, and enforcement from source to workloads, across identity, cloud, Kubernetes, logging, and software supply chains.

You will design secure defaults, enable automation, and define how AI coding agents operate within Parallel’s own infrastructure, including access