Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & Field Operations

Rainmaker Technology Corporation; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Unlimited PTO for rest, exploration, a

Parental leave

Lunch at El Segundo HQ

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rainmaker Technology Corporation in El Segundo is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to build security into software, hardware, and field operations. You’ll write production code and design secure defaults across AWS, applications, and company systems, protecting research data and the systems our aircraft and field teams depend on.

You’ll automate controls, test incident response, and collaborate with engineers to keep security workflows straightforward to use.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining security automation in production.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or TypeScript.
• Hands-on cloud security, with IaC, access control, and logging.
• Ability to work independently and communicate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Map critical systems, data flows, and access paths, then turn the highest-priority risks into a practical plan.
• Build reusable, secure-by-default AWS infrastructure with platform engineers, including least-privilege access, network boundaries, and logging for scientific and operational systems.
• Review application designs and code, build reusable authentication and authorization patterns, and fix vulnerabilities at their source.
• Automate access provisioning and revocation, secrets management, and credential rotation across production and company systems, with clear audit trails and recovery paths.
• Build security checks into development and deployment workflows to catch exposed secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and unsafe configuration changes before release.
• Build useful detections and automate evidence gathering for investigations. Work with system owners to test incident response and recovery.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Security automation

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Rainmaker Technology Corporation in El Segundo is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to build security into software, hardware, and field operations. You’ll write production code and design secure defaults across AWS, applications, and company systems, protecting research data and the systems our aircraft and field teams depend on.

You’ll automate controls, test incident response, and collaborate with engineers to keep security workflows straightforward to use.