Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Colossus Technologies Group is partnering with a rapidly growing financial technology company to build a highly technical Platform Security organization. The Staff Platform Security Engineer will build security systems, tooling, services, and guardrails for large-scale cloud production environments, with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, IAM, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Building security services and internal tooling in Python and/or Go
- Securing large-scale AWS environments and cloud-native infrastructure
- Kubernetes and container security
- IAM, authentication, authorization and least-privilege architecture
- Infrastructure-as-code security and automated policy enforcement
- Security controls embedded into CI/CD and engineering workflows
- Vulnerability detection, prioritization and automated remediation
- Developing scalable security guardrails for engineering teams
- Applying AI and automation to cloud security, vulnerability management and detection
- Designing security systems that are reliable enough to operate as production infrastructure
Skills
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Production experience with Python, Go or another modern backend language
- Deep AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure experience
- Experience building security systems, platforms or automation
- Understanding of distributed systems and production infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers and modern deployment environments
- Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience
- Ability to own a technical problem from architecture through production
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Remote work in the United States
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