20 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USA or San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
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.
- 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 across infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems.
- 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.
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 using 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 secure baselines, cloud security posture management, policy-as-code, automated compliance tooling, audit evidence workflows, and software supply-chain security.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive the applicable temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.