Software Engineer in Security

Flexcompute Inc.

$90K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on engineering experience in backend software, DevOps, or security engineering.
  • Experience securing cloud environments, particularly AWS.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
  • Experience deploying or working with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Working knowledge of application and infrastructure security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

  • Build and integrate security features into web applications and internal platforms.
  • Implement and maintain AWS security controls including IAM and encryption.
  • Securely manage customer jobs and data in cloud and HPC environments.
  • Respond to security alerts from logs for cloud and on-premises systems.
  • Deploy and manage vulnerability scanning tools and collaborate with developers on findings.
  • Fix and validate remediation of penetration test results.
  • Harden and secure on-premises HPC infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with equity in a fast-growing startup.
  • Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.
  • 401(k) Contribution.
  • Gym allowance.
  • Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on software engineer to work on security projects across our web application, AWS, and on-premises high-performance computing environment. This is a crucial role in supporting the company's growth into regulated industries.

What you will do
  • Build and integrate technical security features and controls into our web application and internal administration platforms
  • Implement and maintain AWS security controls, including IAM, encryption, backups, logging, monitoring, and alerting
  • Securely orchestrate customer jobs and data across cloud and HPC environments
  • Build and respond to alerts from security logs covering both cloud and on-premises hardware
  • Deploy and manage vulnerability scanning tooling; collaborate with developers to triage and remediate findings
  • Fix and validate remediations of penetration test findings
  • Harden and secure on-premises HPC infrastructure
  • Maintain and improve compliance tooling integrations, identify gaps, and drive remediation efforts

Requirements

Strong hands-on engineering experience in at least one of:
  • Backend software engineering
  • DevOps / Infrastructure engineering
  • Security engineering, with a focus on building than maintenance

Experience securing cloud environments, ideally AWS

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform)

Experience deploying or working with CI/CD pipelines

Working knowledge of application and infrastructure security fundamentals

Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder

What We're Looking For

We are looking for backend software engineers, devops engineers, or security engineers, as long as you are hands on and are interested in security. You will join a team of infrastructure engineers in an engineering-first company which is at the frontiers of HPC-based simulations. This is a role primarily focused on writing code.

Ideally you have experience in one or more of: building NIST 800-171 or NIST 800-53, compliance automation platforms, infrastructure-as-code, AWS security, developing CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with equity of a fast-growing startup.
  • Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.
  • 401(k) Contribution.
  • Gym allowance.
  • Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.

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