2 months ago
Base Salary
$152k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure and platform services.
- Build and maintain hardened container images and secure base images for engineering and production workloads.
- Integrate vulnerability, dependency, container, and configuration scanning into software delivery systems.
- Automate security and compliance checks, audit evidence collection, configuration validation, and compliance reporting.
- Implement secrets management, identity, and access controls across infrastructure and engineering systems.
- Identify and remediate security weaknesses in infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems with owning teams.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Infosec, Build Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and product teams to implement shared technical controls.
- Define reusable security engineering patterns and drive their adoption across multiple teams at the Staff level.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of related experience for the Staff Engineer level, or equivalent education and experience.
- Experience implementing security controls in AWS or another major cloud environment.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience securing containerized workloads and maintaining hardened container images.
- Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD or software delivery systems.
- Experience with vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container scanning, or configuration validation.
- Experience implementing cloud or engineering identity, secrets, and access controls.
- Experience automating security or infrastructure tasks with Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language.
- Ability to diagnose security and configuration issues across infrastructure, containers, and platform services.
- Experience collaborating with security and engineering teams to implement shared technical controls.
- Preferred experience includes regulated or compliance-driven environments, Kubernetes security, workload identity, container runtime controls, reusable security baselines, cloud security posture management, policy-as-code, automated compliance, audit evidence workflows, and software supply-chain security.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range plus bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range plus a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- The role is a full-time regular employee position; offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Benefits eligibility varies for military fellows and part-time employees.
- Shield AI provides equal employment opportunity and accommodation support.
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About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.