Security Engineer - Platform Security
Qube Research & Technologies22 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build secure platforms for evaluating and adopting emerging technologies across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Develop reusable security architectures, isolation patterns, trust boundaries, and guardrails.
- Evaluate technologies, identify risks, and translate findings into practical engineering controls.
- Design security for networks, identity, privileged access, containers, Kubernetes, and workload isolation.
- Automate security by default using infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, APIs, and software engineering.
- Apply LLMs, AI-assisted tooling, and emerging technologies to improve security engineering and automation.
- Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for infrastructure, software, cloud services, and emerging technologies.
- Partner with infrastructure, engineering, research, and business teams to deliver secure solutions and communicate risk clearly.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering, platform security, cloud security, or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong experience designing secure hybrid infrastructure, ideally including AWS.
- Deep knowledge of network security, IAM, least privilege, and defense-in-depth.
- Hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, and workload security.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code and automation experience, particularly with Terraform.
- Strong scripting or software development skills in Python, Go, PowerShell, or similar.
- Practical experience with threat modeling, CI/CD security, and software supply-chain security.
- Curiosity, an automation-minded approach, ownership, collaboration, communication, and sound judgment.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package.
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses are included in total compensation.
- The role is based in New York and is part of QRT’s global Security function.