Senior Platform Security Engineer: Cloud Guardrails & CSPM

Block; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,200 - 326,800; Full time

Job summary

Block is seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer to enhance our cloud security strategy. This role involves architecting security guardrails and developing automation for security issue management. You will leverage your expertise in AWS and GCP while collaborating across teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience, especially with Infrastructure-as-Code and IAM policies. Join Block in our mission to build tools for an open economy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software or security engineer.
• 4+ years of experience securing infrastructure running on AWS and/or GCP at scale.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Terraform.
• Strong understanding of IAM policies and roles.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve cloud security guardrails.
• Build automation to discover, measure, and contextualize security issues.
• Own the cloud security exception lifecycle.
• Partner with platform teams to eliminate cloud security risks.
• Develop risk-based prioritization using data pipelines.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

Infrastructure as Code

AWS security

GCP security

IAM policies

Tools

Terraform

CSPM tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Block is seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer to enhance our cloud security strategy. This role involves architecting security guardrails and developing automation for security issue management. You will leverage your expertise in AWS and GCP while collaborating across teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience, especially with Infrastructure-as-Code and IAM policies. Join Block in our mission to build tools for an open economy.