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 initiatives from scope through delivery.
- Mentor security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
- Own threat modeling for new cloud technologies, services, and engineering patterns.
- Develop secure-by-default architectures and IAM, RBAC, identity-provider, and least-privilege strategies across AWS and GCP.
- Design cloud-threat detections and SIEM rules and own detection coverage end to end.
- Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead, converting investigations into playbooks and preventative controls.
- Own CrowdStrike, Tenable, native cloud security services, and cloud vulnerability management workflows.
- Secure self-managed Kubernetes control planes, nodes, workloads, admission controls, runtime environments, and CI/CD supply chains.
- Set standards for Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline security.
- Establish patch management, base-image hardening, and version-management practices across containerized and VM-based environments.
- Lead security for large-scale distributed systems and self-managed data stores such as MongoDB.
Requirements
- Several years of production ownership of cloud security, including on-call responsibility.
- Hands-on AWS experience as the primary cloud, working GCP experience, and experience with self-managed Kubernetes.
- Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
- Experience with secure architecture, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, IAM, Kubernetes security, and vulnerability management.
- Ability to lead ambiguous, organization-wide security initiatives through technical depth, influence, mentorship, and standards-setting.
Benefits
- Canadian base salary is listed at CA$153,000–CA$240,500 per year; compensation may also include equity, though compensation figures are excluded from benefits.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off and equal paid parental leave with family and fertility services.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
- Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
- Collaborative culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
Tech Stack
About Braze
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.