2 months ago
Base Salary
$149k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering.
- Set the roadmap for high-impact cloud security work and lead cross-functional security initiatives from scope through delivery.
- Mentor and uplevel security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
- Own threat modeling and secure-by-default architecture practices for new cloud technologies, services, and patterns.
- Set AWS and GCP control-plane and IAM security strategy, including identity providers, RBAC, and least privilege.
- Design cloud threat detections and SIEM rules and own detection coverage end to end.
- Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead and convert investigations into IR playbooks and preventative controls.
- Own security tooling including CrowdStrike, Tenable, and native cloud security services, along with cloud vulnerability management.
- Own security for self-managed Kubernetes control planes, nodes, workloads, admission control, runtime environments, and CI/CD supply chains.
- Set Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline security standards, preferably using Terraform.
- Establish patch management, base-image hardening, and version-management practices across containerized and VM-based environments.
- Lead security practices for large-scale distributed systems and self-managed data stores such as MongoDB.
Requirements
- Several years of production cloud security ownership, including on-call responsibility.
- Hands-on experience with AWS as the primary cloud, GCP, and self-managed Kubernetes.
- Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
- Experience with secure architecture, threat modeling, IAM, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, Kubernetes security, vulnerability management, and infrastructure security.
- Ability to lead through technical depth and influence as a senior individual contributor.
Benefits
- Base salary for U.S.-based candidates is $149,000-$235,000 per year, with potential equity and other compensation components.
- Retirement and employee stock purchase plans are offered.
- Flexible paid time off is provided.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefit plans are available.
- Family services include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development includes career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Braze supports hybrid ways of working and offers a curated in-office employee experience; details vary by location.
- Employees can participate in Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
- The company offers a collaborative, transparent culture recognized as a Great Place to Work.
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About Braze
Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.