Staff Cloud Security Engineer — Impact at Scale + Equity

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 179,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness

Equity

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Security Engineer focused on Cloud Security to advance the company's cloud protection, architecture, and incident response.

You will collaborate with Security, Infra, Platform, SRE, and Engineering to build scalable security controls and foster secure delivery across pipelines. This hands-on role requires deep AWS experience and a track record leading security initiatives with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security or infrastructure engineering.
• Extensive experience with AWS and cloud-native environments.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, least privilege, and service-to-service access.
• Hands-on with Terraform and CI/CD security checks.
• Ability to explain risks with business impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the cloud security strategy and roadmap.
• Design and operate controls across identity, networking, data protection.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to embed security into IaC and pipelines.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and vulnerability management for cloud services.
• Lead reviews and mentor engineers on secure design and patterns.

Skills

AWS & Cloud

Cloud Security

IAM & Privilege

Containers & Kubernetes

IaC & CI/CD

Security Architecture

Threat Modeling

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Security Engineer focused on Cloud Security to advance the company's cloud protection, architecture, and incident response.

You will collaborate with Security, Infra, Platform, SRE, and Engineering to build scalable security controls and foster secure delivery across pipelines. This hands-on role requires deep AWS experience and a track record leading security initiatives with cross-functional teams.