Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability

Kairos Power, Remote or Alameda, CA +1

The role

Kairos Power is looking for a Senior Platform Security and Reliability Engineer to work within a small software and infrastructure team that supports the needs of our design, research, and development organizations. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will own the security baseline and the reliability posture of the cloud and high-performance computing platforms that engineering teams depend on, and you will build the controls, automation, and recovery mechanisms that keep those platforms both defensible and dependable.

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Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability

Kairos Power, Remote or Alameda, CA +1

Posted pay

$141K–$165K

a year

Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is below the median for senior security engineering jobs that are remote in the US.

Median: $195K a year
Other jobs in the group: 125

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Location: Remote or Alameda, CA +1
Work type: Remote
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
AWS
GCP
Docker
Grafana
Linux
Posted: Oct 13, 2026
Last check: 56 min ago
Job type: Security engineering, Infra, platform & SRE, Inference & ML systems

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With posted pay: 62%
Median posted base: $141K–$165K

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The role

What you need

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of relevant experience in platform, infrastructure, cloud, security, site reliability engineering, or a related field, including experience designing, securing, and operating production cloud infrastructure.
Demonstrated experience designing, securing, and operating production cloud infrastructure, with strong AWS experience.
Strong Linux systems experience, including administration, hardening, and troubleshooting.
Experience with infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code, configuration management, and programming or scripting.
Experience implementing platform security controls across areas such as access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.
Experience designing and operating monitoring, recovery, and incident-response capabilities for production systems.
Demonstrated ability to design maintainable infrastructure and make sound technical tradeoffs involving security, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, segmentation, and remote access.
Knowledge of platform security principles, including least-privilege access, identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability management, and defense-in-depth.
Ability to translate security, reliability, and operational requirements into practical, automated technical controls.
Ability to use monitoring, logging, metrics, and service health indicators to identify, diagnose, and improve security and reliability issues.
Ability to assess technical risk, prioritize remediation, and drive issues to sustainable resolution.
Ability to work with a highly collaborative team.
Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others.
Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge.
Ability to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges, and issues, where each improvement is tied to a measurable engineering need such as safety, reliability, performance, usability, or maintainability.
Ability to exercise architectural judgment and to favor the simplest design that satisfies the requirement.
Ability to weigh security risk against engineering cost, and to explain the resulting tradeoff to the people it affects.
Ability to give direct technical feedback, to receive it, and to change course when a review identifies a better approach.
Ability to communicate clearly during incidents and to keep stakeholders informed of impact, status, and resolution.
Ability to take operational ownership of systems through their full lifecycle, including testing, documentation, and retirement.
Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to select simple and proportionate designs, to reason about maintainability and performance, and to explain the tradeoffs behind a build-versus-buy decision.

Additional Requirements

Occasionally requires working weekends.
Occasionally requires schedule flexibility.
Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines.

The salary range for this position is $140,611 to $165,425 for employees working onsite at our Alameda, CA headquarters. The range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired in California. Factors that maybe used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, ability and the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability

The role

Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability

The role

What you need

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Additional Requirements

Nice to have

Security baseline and platform controls

Identity, secrets, and certificates

Compliance automation

Reliability, recovery, and incident leadership

Observability architecture

Network and connectivity security

Cloud lifecycle and cost governance

Engineering practice and mentorship

Physical Conditions

Environmental Conditions

Safety and PPE

Travel

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