Staff Cloud Security Engineer: Lead Secure Cloud Architecture

Scribd, Inc.; Austin (CO); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave and family support

Retirement matching and equity

Learning and development programs

Wellness and home office stipends

Product suite access

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Cloud Security Engineer to shape the technical direction of Cloud Security and drive architectural investments across AWS and GCP.

You will collaborate with engineers to strengthen identity models, guardrails, and workload protection while balancing long-term improvements with pressing security risks. This hands-on leadership role requires deep expertise in cloud security, IAM, and secure-by-default patterns, with a track record of delivering measurable

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud or infrastructure security engineering, with hands-on production experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS or GCP and strong knowledge of the other.
• Proven ability to shape security architecture across teams and drive secure-by-default practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud security architecture and guardrails across AWS and GCP.
• Lead secure workloads, CI/CD integration, and workload isolation initiatives.
• Mentor engineers, drive security standards, and communicate risk and progress.

Skills

Cloud security

Identity & access management

Security architecture

Container security

Threat modeling

Terraform

Python

Go

Incident response

GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Python

Go

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Staff Cloud Security Engineer to shape the technical direction of Cloud Security and drive architectural investments across AWS and GCP.

You will collaborate with engineers to strengthen identity models, guardrails, and workload protection while balancing long-term improvements with pressing security risks. This hands-on leadership role requires deep expertise in cloud security, IAM, and secure-by-default patterns, with a track record of delivering measurable