Posted 1 month ago
Porter - Founding Security Engineer
AI Summary
Found the Secure Engineering function and drive the internal security roadmap across a ~20-person engineering organization, building and shipping customer-facing security products.
About this role
Porter (porter.run): PaaS running in customers' own clouds. 24 people, $21.5M raised, NYC.
Comp: $220K-$320K + competitive equity. Location: 5 days in-office NYC; 30 days PTO + 30 days remote/yr; relocation support. Visa: Visa transfers (OPT/H1B) and new sponsorships (H1B, TN); new H1B only for exceptional candidates.
Responsibilities
Found the Secure Engineering function; drive internal security roadmap across ~20-person eng org
Build and ship customer-facing security products
Write production Go to harden multi-cloud infra (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes in hundreds of customer accounts
Own cloud/container security end-to-end: IAM, network security, secrets, workload isolation, security logging
Engage directly with customers' security engineers
Tech stack: Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Docker, SQL, IAM
Source: https://www.paraform.com/share/porter.run/cmubvvpl2006u0ckwwu4pugmn
Requirements
4+ yrs infrastructure/platform engineering; software engineer first
Cloud + Kubernetes security depth (IAM, network, secrets, isolation)
Go; AWS/GCP/Azure; Terraform
On-site NYC 5 days
Skills
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