7 hours ago
Base Salary
$341k - $402k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture for platform security capabilities across identity, authorization, infrastructure security, encryption, key management, and auditability.
- Design and build authentication, federation, authorization, workload identity, lifecycle provisioning, and administrative access systems.
- Build Kubernetes and distributed-infrastructure security capabilities using software, policies, automation, APIs, controllers, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps.
- Architect multi-tenant isolation and security controls across compute, network, storage, and control-plane boundaries.
- Own secure provisioning, secrets and credential management, encryption, and certificate lifecycle security.
- Build production software and automation that make secure infrastructure patterns reliable, scalable, and easy for engineering teams to adopt.
- Lead security-sensitive platform designs, influence technical standards, and communicate architecture, risks, and tradeoffs across engineering and security teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building complex infrastructure or distributed systems, with deep experience in cloud and platform security, identity and access, Kubernetes, or related infrastructure security domains.
- Experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture across multiple systems, teams, or infrastructure domains.
- Deep experience with OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, workload identity, short-lived credentials, and multi-factor authentication.
- Deep experience designing security and isolation for multi-tenant systems across network, compute, storage, and control-plane boundaries.
- Hands-on Kubernetes security expertise, including admission control, service-account and workload identity, secrets and encryption, policy enforcement, and node security.
- Strong understanding of secrets management, encryption, key management, certificate lifecycle, and secure credential management.
- Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience designing, building, and operating production systems.
- Experience building security controls through APIs, controllers, automation, policy, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, or similar approaches.
- Experience leading ambiguous cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.
- Valuable experience includes building identity, key-management, network-security, or infrastructure-security capabilities for cloud platforms; securing high-performance storage and distributed infrastructure; automating compliance evidence; and building Kubernetes operators or admission webhooks.
Benefits
- Competitive total cash compensation range of $341,400-$401,600 for U.S.-based candidates, inclusive of potential bonus value, plus a Long-Term Incentive Program and employee benefits.
- Hiring is prioritized in or near the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Dallas.
- International compensation varies based on local market dynamics.
- The role may require U.S. export-control eligibility, including U.S. person status or eligibility for an applicable export license.
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About Groq
Groq designs and operates AI inference hardware and cloud services built around its LPU architecture, aimed at developers and enterprises running large language models and other ML workloads. It generates revenue by selling processors and offering pay-as-you-go inference through its hosted platform and APIs. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is privately held.