16 hours ago
Washington, DC, USA +3 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$100k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Secure Kubernetes nodes, clusters, pods, roles, tokens, secrets, service-to-service communication, and software supply chains.
- Identify and remediate overprivileged permissions, dangerous workload settings, privilege escalation paths, container breakouts, and cross-workload movement.
- Assess platform security from an adversarial perspective using safe, constrained validation and turn findings into fixes, detections, controls, or tools.
- Design and build security tooling and automation, including AI-assisted analysis, to identify risky configurations and overprivilege.
- Strengthen identity, secrets handling, workload access, supply-chain security, image scanning, and secure base-image controls.
- Review changes involving RBAC, operators, ServiceAccounts, network policies, and elevated privileges.
- Partner with platform and product teams as a security owner and contribute to fleet-wide hardening, policy enforcement, and safer defaults.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in platform security, Kubernetes security, or offensive security against production infrastructure.
- Deep knowledge of privileged containers, capabilities, host namespaces, host path mounts, service accounts, RBAC, admission control, and network isolation.
- Working knowledge of identity, secrets, workload identity, service-to-service trust, software supply chains, runtime security, and cloud access.
- Ability to think like an attacker, assess blast radius, and translate attack paths into detections, controls, or tools.
- Experience with operators, custom resources, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
- Ability to build or modify security tooling in Go, Python, or Rust.
- Preferred experience includes image scanning, SBOMs, secure base images, policy-as-code using Kyverno or OPA, multi-cluster environments, runtime detection, customer-facing application security testing, and AI-driven security tools.
- Ability to drive technical decisions, influence security practices across teams, and collaborate in dynamic cross-functional environments.
Benefits
- Base salary is $100,000-$258,000 USD, with equity also included in the total rewards package.
- Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
- The role requires working out of an office in Palo Alto, Austin, Washington, DC, or New York.
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