Software Engineer – Platform Security

The role

You will architect and build security foundations for a multi-tenant serverless compute platform running on Kubernetes. You will own security design for the control plane and data plane and implement guardrails as code.

What you will do

• Design and implement security architecture for a Kubernetes-based, multi-tenant serverless platform
• Build guardrails as code using Terraform and Helm
• Establish network segmentation and service-mesh policy
• Develop secrets and key management patterns
• Implement runtime detections for containerized workloads
• Design and roll out IAM and workload identity management
• Threat model new features and changes to the overall platform
• Collaborate with engineering to debug production issues
• Lead post-incident hardening
• Automate evidence for compliance controls

Required qualifications

• 5+ years securing cloud-native platforms with a focus on distributed systems and multi-tenancy
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, VPC/networking, logging/monitoring, ...)
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes/container security
• Proficiency with Terraform and Helm
• Experience building or operating runtime detections for containers/functions
• Strong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, or AI tooling
• Clear written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Knative or similar serverless-on-K8s frameworks
• Container hardening and sandboxing
• Policy-as-code and admission policy design at scale
• eBPF-based observability, detections, and signal tuning
• Multi-cloud exposure and cross-cloud identity approaches
• Hands-on contributions to SOC 2 / HIPAA control automation and audit evidence pipelines

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Daily lunch and dinner provided
• Unlimited snacks and beverages
• Supportive and highly collaborative work environment
• Health check-up support
• Top-tier equipment/hardware support
• A front-row seat to the generative AI infrastructure revolution
• Competitive compensation
• Startup equity
• Health insurance

About the company

FriendliAI is building an AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale. They are a small, fast-moving team powering high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide.