Job Description

Senior Security Software Engineer

Torrance, CA – Relocation Assistance Provided

The Company

Our client’s mission is to expand humanity’s frontier into the solar system and beyond. The next step on this journey is to enable manufacturing and habitation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our client’s plan to make this a reality is to build artificial gravity space stations.

The Job

Our client is looking for a Senior Security Software Engineer, reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

Functions

• Work with team to design, implement, and maintain a wide variety of backends, tools, and pipelines directly in support of mission-critical security services.
• Partner with various engineering teams to assist in the implementation and design of their security-sensitive features and services.
• Influence and adopt practices and patterns for security and software that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline.
• 6+ years experience with building security services and configurations (i.e. IAM, short-lived certificates, API security).
• Deep security knowledge in one or more domains (i.e. cryptography, network security, infrastructure security).
• Development experience in any modern programming language (including but not limited to Python, C++, Rust, Go).
• Experience building, shipping, and supporting security applications in the cloud.
• Proficiency using the command line, writing shell scripts, and an understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on ambiguous problems.
• Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred).
• Experience working with multiple programming languages.
• Experience with API Design.
• Deep security knowledge in one or more domains.
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Problem solver with a bias for action.