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 security weaknesses across infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems and drive remediation with owning teams.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Infosec, Build Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and product teams to implement scalable security 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 building or 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 identity, secrets, and access controls in cloud or engineering environments.
- 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 working with security and engineering teams to implement shared technical controls.
- Preferred experience operating systems in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes security, workload identity, container runtime controls, cloud security posture management, policy-as-code, automated compliance tooling, audit evidence collection, continuous compliance, 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 full-time; offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Compensation varies based on skills, experience, licenses, certifications, and work location.
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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.