Systems Security Engineer
Blacksmith, New York City
The role
We are looking for a Systems Security Engineer to build and operate security controls at Blacksmith. Your primary focus will be our bare-metal fleet, with responsibility extending to our AWS control plane, application services and the broader organization.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll work alongside our systems engineers to harden production systems, strengthen workload isolation, and investigate and remediate security issues. You'll partner with our Security Lead to translate security priorities into engineering work.
What you will do
- Identify, prioritize and remediate security risks across our bare-metal fleet, AWS control plane, application services and the broader organization.
- Strengthen tenant isolation, host hardening, network boundaries and access controls across our platform.
- Build and operate automated security controls for secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection and response, validating their effectiveness without compromising production reliability or performance.