Senior Security Engineer for AI Inference Fleet

Runware; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote-first work model

Generous paid time off

Paid parental/maternity leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Runware in Palo Alto, CA, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to own the security of its AI supercomputer fleet, from bare‑metal GPU nodes to managed Kubernetes clusters and the control plane. You will design controls, harden images, and lead incident response across US and Europe.

You will work with CISO, inference engine, platform and hardware teams to ensure secure deployments and auditable changes, with strong emphasis on prevention and rapid containment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security or infrastructure engineering, with production-scale hardware.
• Built security controls from design to fleet rollout, not just audits.
• Hands-on Linux security: kernel hardening, namespaces, seccomp, eBPF, TPM.
• Strong Kubernetes security: RBAC, policy, image signing, SBOMs.
• Experience with identity, secrets and PKI at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own security architecture of the fleet: host hardening, signed builds, boot integrity, and access model.
• Verify isolation between customer workloads across network, Kubernetes, host and GPU layers.
• Harden managed Kubernetes offering: cluster hardening, admission controls, and trusted handovers.
• Build security visibility: logging, alerting, audit trails from firmware to API.
• Lead security reviews and threat models for pods, sites, servers and features.
• Run incident response and post‑incident learning for infrastructure.
• Own vulnerability management across firmware, kernel, drivers and images.
• Produce engineering evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls.
• Design for sovereign and on‑premise deployments and data residency.
• Use AI to accelerate tooling, log triage, audits and runbooks.

Skills

Linux security

Kubernetes security

Python/Go

Threat modeling

Incident response

Tools

RBAC

SBOMs

Job description

Runware in Palo Alto, CA, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to own the security of its AI supercomputer fleet, from bare‑metal GPU nodes to managed Kubernetes clusters and the control plane. You will design controls, harden images, and lead incident response across US and Europe.

You will work with CISO, inference engine, platform and hardware teams to ensure secure deployments and auditable changes, with strong emphasis on prevention and rapid containment.