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 initiatives from scope through delivery.
- Mentor security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
- Own threat modeling and secure-by-default architecture practices for cloud technologies and services.
- Drive AWS and GCP control-plane, IAM, identity-provider, RBAC, and least-privilege security strategy.
- Design cloud-threat detections and SIEM rules, and own detection coverage end to end.
- Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead, codifying findings into incident-response playbooks and preventative controls.
- Own and optimize CrowdStrike, Tenable, and native cloud security services while leading cloud vulnerability management.
- Set security standards for self-managed Kubernetes, including control planes, nodes, workload isolation, admission control, runtime security, and supply-chain security.
- Harden Terraform-based infrastructure and CI/CD automation, and establish practices for patch management, base-image hardening, and version management.
- Lead security 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 AWS experience as the primary cloud, working GCP experience, and experience with self-managed Kubernetes.
- Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
- Strong experience with secure cloud architecture, threat modeling, IAM, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, vulnerability management, and platform security.
- Experience setting technical direction, leading ambiguous cross-functional initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing architecture decisions as a senior individual contributor.
Benefits
- Compensation may include equity grants, retirement and employee stock purchase plans, flexible paid time off, and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Family services include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development includes formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Braze supports hybrid ways of working and offers a curated in-office employee experience.
- Additional offerings include Volunteer Week, donation matching, Employee Resource Groups, and a collaborative culture.
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.