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Paranoids Senior Container Security Engineer

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10 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
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Base Salary

$128k - $267k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Operate and improve container image scanning and SBOM tooling in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Develop container security baselines and industry-standard best practices.
  • Build detections, policy-as-code guardrails, hardened base images, and self-service tooling to enforce secure container workloads.
  • Secure container workloads across GCP, AWS, on-premises Linux and Windows hosts, and bare-metal environments.
  • Maintain host hardening, container runtime configuration, operating-system patches, and server firmware updates.
  • Develop and validate AI-assisted workflows for vulnerability triage, security policy updates, query generation, and security automation.
  • Partner with platform engineering, vulnerability operations, and product teams to move security milestones into production.
  • Report container fleet risk posture, remediation progress, and program metrics to security leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of information security experience, including at least 3 years focused on container security, cloud security engineering, or DevSecOps.
  • Hands-on experience with container vulnerability scanning, SBOM tooling, CVE triage, and SPDX or CycloneDX formats.
  • Experience securing GKE, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, and container findings in Google Cloud Security Command Center.
  • Experience hardening enterprise Linux, bare metal, Windows, and other distributions, and operating containerd or Docker on bare metal.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes security controls including RBAC, namespaces, pod security, and admission control.
  • AWS container experience with ECS, Fargate, EKS, ECR, and IAM.
  • Strong understanding of container image hygiene, freshness, end-of-life distribution risk, signing, and provenance.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL and ability to build and maintain data pipelines using platforms such as Databricks or Spark.
  • Comfort using enterprise AI tools such as Claude and Gemini for security work.
  • Preferred: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, AWS Certified Security Specialty, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Preferred: experience with Binary Authorization, Sigstore/cosign, OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Kubernetes network policies, service mesh, mTLS, runtime security tools, bare-metal container platforms, server firmware lifecycle, CIS Benchmarks, vulnerability management, Terraform, Checkov, and AI security workflow automation.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work with occasional in-person events or team sessions and advance notice when attendance is needed.
  • Healthcare benefits, 401k, backup childcare, education stipends, and additional benefits.
  • Compensation may include discretionary annual bonus or commissions.
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About Yahoo

5,001-10,000 employees

Yahoo builds consumer internet products—Mail, Finance, Sports, News, and Search—and an omnichannel advertising platform used by brands and publishers. It monetizes through ads and subscriptions while operating high-scale services that handle billions of daily requests for hundreds of millions of users. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in New York, it is a privately held company owned by Apollo Global Management.

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