Staff Platform Security Engineer — Cloud & Edge

Firestorm

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 175,000 - 195,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans
401(k) retirement savings plan
Equity grants
Unlimited PTO
Generous holiday calendar
Parental leave
Mental health resources

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is hiring a Staff Platform Security Engineer to strengthen security across Crucible and our deployable manufacturing software. You will code, build infrastructure, review designs, and fix security issues directly with engineers.

You\'ll harden cloud, edge, and air-gapped deployments, implement identity, secrets, and supply chain protections, and drive security controls from design through deployment in accredited environments.

Qualifications

  • US citizenship and ability to obtain a US Government security clearance.
  • 8+ years of security engineering, platform security, product security, or cloud security experience; with a proven track record
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience contributing directly to production code
  • Strong Linux, networking, and cloud security fundamentals
  • Deep experience securing Kubernetes, containers, and cloud infrastructure
  • Strong experience with identity and access management, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and PKI
  • Experience with application and platform threat modeling, security architecture, and vulnerability remediation
  • Experience building security automation into CI/CD, infrastructure, and deployment workflows
  • Experience with software supply chain security, including dependency management, artifact integrity, signing, or provenance
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement security solutions across application, infrastructure, and deployment boundaries

Responsibilities

  • Drive platform security execution from design through implementation across Crucible, cloud, and edge deployments.
  • Build security into the platform with authentication, authorization, secrets, data protection, and system boundaries.
  • Secure cloud and edge deployments by hardening Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and air-gapped environments.
  • Own identity and trust across connected and disconnected deployments.
  • Secure the software supply chain with dependency security, artifact integrity, signing, and provenance.
  • Find and fix security weaknesses by threat modeling, reviewing designs and code, and remediation.
  • Automate security controls within CI/CD, infrastructure, and development workflows.
  • Support accreditation by translating security requirements into controls and evidence for ATO and customer security needs.

Skills

Security engineering
Production code
Linux
Networking fundamentals
Kubernetes
Identity & access management
CI/CD automation
Threat modeling

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is hiring a Staff Platform Security Engineer to strengthen security across Crucible and our deployable manufacturing software. You will code, build infrastructure, review designs, and fix security issues directly with engineers.

You\'ll harden cloud, edge, and air-gapped deployments, implement identity, secrets, and supply chain protections, and drive security controls from design through deployment in accredited environments.

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