Senior Engineer

Menlo Security; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Menlo Security is seeking a Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the company’s cloud-native infrastructure across GCP and AWS. You’ll build reliable, secure platforms, automate with Terraform and GitOps workflows, and drive multi-region resilience.

You’ll collaborate with Global SRE, Security and Product teams, leverage tooling like Spacelift, Helm, Grafana and OTel, and contribute to incident readiness, observability, and automated recovery at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Kubernetes expertise including cluster administration, RBAC, networking, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Clear understanding of how to use LLM-based code-assist tools to effectively build and troubleshoot software.
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, VPC, DNS, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, IAM, and Workload Identity.
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, UDP, TLS), and enterprise connectivity solutions.
• Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform modules and Spacelift.
• Develop observability solutions with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus/Mimir, and OpenTelemetry collectors.
• Manage certificates, DNS automation, ingress controllers, and service mesh networking.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams on capacity planning and disaster recovery.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Spacelift

Helm

Grafana Cloud

Prometheus

Mimir

OTel

GKE

AWS

Job description

• Platform Infrastructure Engineering builds and operates Menlo Security’s Infrastructure Platform, enabling our customers to connect to the Internet without compromise. As a Platform Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll join a globally distributed team of experienced engineers building and managing the company’s core infrastructure services on a cloud-native platform built on Google Kubernetes Engine and VMs spanning multiple regions and environments
• The team manages infrastructure as code with Terraform and Spacelift, deploys with Helm, and emphasizes security-first design, comprehensive observability, and multi-region resilience. The team also uses AI-assisted development and code-review tools, including Gemini Code Assist, as part of the standard engineering workflow, and this role is expected to use LLM-based tooling to build and troubleshoot infrastructure code efficiently
• Key Outcome(s) Owned:
• Reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure across GCP and AWS supporting Menlo’s platform globally
• Reduced operational toil and incident recurrence through automation and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Comprehensive, end-to-end observability framework providing deep platform visibility, proactive health monitoring, and accelerated incident detection and resolution
• Success Metrics / KPIs:
• Infrastructure uptime/availability across regions (e.g., 99.9%+)
• Mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) for incidents
• Percentage of infrastructure changes deployed via IaC (Terraform) vs. manual changes
• On-call incident volume and reduction in repeat/preventable incidents
• Lead time for provisioning new infrastructu
• Design, deploy, and maintain VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS across dozens of clusters spanning development, staging, and production environments in multiple regions
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform modules and Spacelift (or equivalent TACOS), provisioning networking, compute, storage, and security components, and implementing multi-layer configuration management workflows
• Build and maintain observability solutions using Grafana Cloud, Prometheus/Mimir, and OTel collectors, designing dashboards and alerting rules across all platform components
• Manage certificate lifecycle, DNS automation, ingress controllers, and service mesh networking with Cilium
• Partner with peers and across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams to align on requirements and consult on capacity planning, disaster recovery, and architectural decisions
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation — writing scripts, building CI/CD pipelines, and using AI-assisted coding tools to move faster
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation as part of a globally distributed team, responding to incidents and driving post-incident reviews

Proficiency in common programming and scripting languages, particularly Python, Bash, and GoBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experienceProven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and managementKubernetes expertise, including cluster administration, RBAC, networking, workload management, and troubleshooting in production environmentsClear understanding of how to use LLM-based code-assist tools to effectively build and troubleshoot softwareKnowledge of Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, VPC networking, Cloud DNS, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, IAM, Gemini Code Assist, and Workload IdentityUnderstanding of network topologies, communication protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP/S, UDP, TLS), and enterprise-grade connectivity solutionsExperience with GitOps methodologies and tools