Platform Security Engineer, NZ

The role

The Platform Security Engineer will own the security posture and contribute to platform reliability. This role involves hardening infrastructure, managing vulnerabilities, and maintaining security compliance.

What you will do

• Keep Partly reliable and secure
• Participate in the on-call rotation
• Own security incident response planning and testing
• Lead post-incident reviews for security-related incidents
• Build security event monitoring and alerting
• Prepare for and pass security audits
• Maintain continuous compliance through Vanta
• Respond to enterprise customer security questionnaires
• Maintain and communicate the risk register
• Harden infrastructure and implement least privilege

Required qualifications

• Compliance framework experience with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI-DSS
• Cloud security expertise
• Infrastructure-as-code practitioner with experience in Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows
• Clear communicator

Nice to have

• 5+ years in security engineering, platform engineering, or SRE with a strong security focus
• Hands-on Kubernetes security experience
• GCP experience
• CNCF security tooling experience such as Cilium, Kyverno, Falco, or similar tools
• Container security and supply chain security (SBOM, image signing)
• Rust or Go experience

Benefits

• Healthy, Catered Lunches
• Snacks and drinks
• $1,500 annual wellness allowance
• 3 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Flexible return-to-work plan for primary caregivers
• Paid 24/7 parking spot or a commuting allowance
• Architecturally designed offices
• Quarterly season openers with travel and accommodation covered
• Weekly happy hours
• Monthly lunches
• Annual global offsite
• Relocation allowance

About the company

Partly is building the infrastructure for anyone to repair anything using frontier AI. The company is founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers.