Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Nimble; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Referral Bonus

401k

Equity

Job summary

Nimble is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Team, building secure, reliable, and scalable platforms across cloud, on‑premise, and robot-facing systems. You will lead security reviews, design guardrails, and drive incident response while mentoring engineers and expanding observability.

You will work on automation, reliability patterns, and production readiness, shaping the long-term infrastructure roadmap and engineering best practices at Nimble.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, or SRE experience.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of ambiguous projects, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Rust, Go, C++, Python, or TypeScript.
• Strong self-learning and continuous improvement mindset.
• Solid understanding of modern attack vectors, defensive mitigation strategies, secure software development practices, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining technical tradeoffs, operational risks, and security concerns to cross-functional teams.
• Experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating cloud infrastructure and distributed backend systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerised workloads, cloud infrastructure, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and infrastructure hardening.
• Experience operating production systems, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, debugging, performance analysis, and postmortems.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews, reliability reviews, or production readiness reviews for custom business applications or infrastructure systems.
• Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL systems, encryption-based access, secrets management, or policy engines.
• Experience with one or more Infrastructure as Code tools or frameworks such as Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the infrastructure roadmap for secure, reliable, and scalable software services, robotics products, embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems.
• Act as a primary technical authority on security, infrastructure reliability, availability, compliance, and operational excellence across the organization.
• Lead security architecture reviews, reliability reviews, production readiness reviews, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
• Design and implement security controls, reliability patterns, data compliance mechanisms, and guardrails for both On-Premise and Cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to mitigate security weaknesses, reliability risks, scalability bottlenecks.
• Develop platforms, tools, and automation that improve cloud security posture, system reliability, developer velocity, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and cross‑teams on secure design, reliable system architecture, operational ownership, and production engineering practices.
• Develop observability via metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, for detection, monitoring, alerting, and remediation systems for vulnerabilities, incidents, regressions, service degradation, misconfigurations, and infrastructure drift.
• Define and improve incident response processes, including on‑call practices, runbooks, postmortems, severity frameworks, and follow‑up tracking.
• Drive software engineering best practices across the team by producing high‑quality, well‑tested, maintainable code and raising the bar in reviews.

Skills

Rust

Go

C++

Python

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Nimble is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Team, building secure, reliable, and scalable platforms across cloud, on‑premise, and robot-facing systems. You will lead security reviews, design guardrails, and drive incident response while mentoring engineers and expanding observability.

You will work on automation, reliability patterns, and production readiness, shaping the long-term infrastructure roadmap and engineering best practices at Nimble.