Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability
Kairos Power19 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and maintain security baselines and platform controls across AWS, Google Cloud, Linux, identity systems, machine image pipelines, networks, and engineering services.
- Automate identity, secrets, certificate, vulnerability, compliance evidence, resource inventory, and access provisioning processes.
- Design and operate reliability capabilities including service health indicators, service-level objectives, automated recovery, backups, restoration, disaster recovery, observability, and incident response.
- Lead availability and security incident response, post-incident reviews, remediation tracking, and stakeholder communications.
- Own cloud and HPC workload migration, service retirement, cost visibility, budgets, alerting, and resource guardrails.
- Write and maintain infrastructure and security automation, lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, document systems, and reduce single-person dependencies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in platform, infrastructure, cloud, security, site reliability engineering, or a related field, including production cloud infrastructure operation.
- Strong AWS and Linux systems experience, including cloud infrastructure design, administration, hardening, troubleshooting, and security controls.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, programming or scripting, monitoring, recovery, and incident response.
- Experience implementing access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability management, and security monitoring controls.
- Ability to make maintainable technical tradeoffs involving security, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.
- Preferred qualifications include Google Cloud, cloud cost management, HPC security, Slurm, Open OnDemand, MPI, GPU-enabled workloads, Docker, Apptainer, self-hosted engineering services, vulnerability and patch automation, security control frameworks, and scientific or engineering computing support.
- An advanced degree in a related technical field is desirable.
Benefits
- Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
- Benefits include paid vacation, 401(k), and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits through FSA.
- The position supports remote work in a general office environment.
- Some travel may be required for workshops and project assistance.
- The role may occasionally require weekends, schedule flexibility, and extended hours for launches and critical project timelines.
About Kairos Power
Kairos Power designs and commercializes advanced nuclear reactors using a fluoride-salt coolant to deliver high-temperature, low-carbon energy for utilities and industrial customers. The company develops, licenses, and builds demonstration systems as a path to fleet deployment, with offerings spanning reactor design, engineering, and operations support. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the privately held firm grew out of U.S. university and national-laboratory research on fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactors (FHRs).