3 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and roadmap the security program for the multi-cloud control plane and customer-hosted deployments.
- Ship production fixes and platform security guardrails using Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Design IAM, RBAC/authZ, network security, KMS, and tenant-isolation systems across product and platform.
- Act as the first responder for penetration testing, security audits, and CVEs.
- Build security testing in CI/CD, including SAST, DAST, and SCA.
- Threat-model real systems and turn findings into security strategy.
- Define secure integrations between AI agents and tools.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience.
- Hands-on production coding experience in Java, Python, or TypeScript, with a focus on shipping fixes and platform guardrails.
- Experience owning a security roadmap and converting the threat landscape into a prioritized program.
- Experience with multi-cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, and self-hosted environments.
- Experience with IAM, network security, KMS, tenant isolation, RBAC/authZ, security testing, and threat modeling.
- Experience responding to penetration tests, security audits, and CVEs.
- Experience analyzing SAST, DAST, and SCA in CI/CD.
- AI-coding experience involving precise direction of AI systems.
- Preferred: OSCP or CKS certification, Kubernetes security, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, detection engineering, or red-team experience.
Benefits
- Base salary of $180,000–$240,000 depending on experience and leveling, plus generous equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible PTO.
- Personal development support.
- Full-time, in-office work in Santa Clara, CA, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Orkes
Orkes provides a workflow orchestration platform for building and operating distributed, event-driven applications, including Orkes Cloud—managed, security-hardened clusters compatible with open-source Netflix Conductor with added enterprise features. It sells SaaS and enterprise subscriptions used across fintech, e-commerce, logistics, and healthcare. Founded in 2020 by ex-Netflix engineers who created Conductor, Orkes is privately held and headquartered in Cupertino, California.