Placer.ai

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Placer.ai
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23 hours ago
Ramat Gan, IsraelSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the security posture of GCP and Kubernetes environments, including IAM, network segmentation, workload hardening, data access, and continuous cloud misconfiguration remediation.
  • Build hardened base images, secure Kubernetes configurations, and policy-as-code guardrails for Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Embed security into CI/CD through automated fixes and alerts.
  • Manage secrets and keys end to end, including rollout, rotation, and access policies.
  • Drive vulnerability management from discovery through remediation, prioritizing issues by real exposure.
  • Review services and designs through practical threat modeling.
  • Lead security incidents from containment through post-mortem.
  • Mentor engineers and help teams adopt AI services safely.
  • Use AI to scale security work through LLM-assisted triage, policy-as-code generation and testing, and automated design reviews.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in security, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 3+ years owning cloud security in production.
  • Deep hands-on experience securing a major public cloud; experience with GCP is directly relevant, while strong AWS or Azure experience may transfer.
  • Production Kubernetes security experience including RBAC, network policies, admission control, and workload hardening.
  • Experience with Terraform or a similar tool and Python or Go, including building security automation.
  • Sound judgment in deciding when to block, guide, or accept security risks.
  • Familiarity with security risks of LLM APIs and AI services in production, or willingness to develop that expertise.
  • Nice-to-have experience in application security, DevSecOps, data-platform security, data-access governance, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Excellent benefits.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Global remote workforce.
Placer.ai

About Placer.ai

501-1,000 employees

Placer.ai builds a SaaS location analytics platform that turns aggregated, privacy-safe mobile location and geospatial data into foot-traffic and trade-area insights for retailers, commercial real estate, and public-sector teams. Customers use its web-based tools and APIs to analyze sites, markets, and consumer behavior and inform investments, marketing, and operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, the company is privately held and serves thousands of organizations, including Fortune 500 brands and local governments.

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