Cloud Security Engineer

About This Role

Working with a well-funded, YC-backed Series B AI startup, the Cloud Security Engineer will play a crucial role in scaling the product and enterprise customer base. This position requires a strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and hands-on security, focusing on identifying vulnerabilities, hardening systems, and improving security across applications and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own security across a production AWS environment
• Identify and remediate infrastructure, container, dependency, and application vulnerabilities
• Harden cloud infrastructure, APIs, and production services
• Improve IAM, access controls, secrets management, and network security
• Build and improve vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and threat detection
• Work across Docker/container security and infrastructure-as-code
• Partner directly with engineering leadership on security architecture and best practices
• Help strengthen the company’s security posture as they scale with larger enterprise customers

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS / Amazon Web Services
• Experience securing cloud infrastructure in a production environment
• Experience with vulnerability detection and remediation
• Strong understanding of areas like IAM, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, container security, API security, OWASP, SAST/DAST, CVEs, and dependency scanning
• Experience with Docker and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Comfortable working across both infrastructure and application security
• Startup experience is a plus, particularly if you’ve owned security in a smaller engineering team

Benefits

• Hands-on engineering role focused on practical security solutions

Important Details

• This is a hands-on engineering role rather than a compliance-focused security position.

Application Process

• Interested candidates should apply through the company's application portal.