Lead Cloud Security Engineer

The role

Encord handles sensitive, high-value data for our customers, including in regulated industries like healthcare. In an era where exploits and supply-chain attacks are being discovered and executed faster than ever, it's vital that we stay on the cutting edge of keeping our systems and our customers' data safe.

Hardening our systems is only part of the solution. As we scale into more industries with their diverse security and regulatory requirements, we want someone who can help us attain and maintain higher levels of compliance certification.

What you need

What we're looking for

We're hiring at both Level 3 (Senior) and Level 4 (Staff). For calibration, candidates typically bring 5+ years of platform engineering experience in high-growth, cloud-native SaaS environments, but we care more about impact than years. We're looking for that "T"-shaped skillset where the candidate's depth is in Cloud Security.

The ideal candidate will have a product, infrastructure or network engineering background but caught the bug for security, and cares deeply about enabling people to work fast, safely. Finally, we're looking for someone who sees security as an enabler and force-multiplier, someone who answers questions with a "Here's how we do it securely."

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

A strong team. You'll join a team of senior and staff engineers who set a high bar and will push you to do your best work.
Modern, cloud-native stack. Cloud-native and IaC-driven: GCP and Terraform, with TypeScript/Python across the stack.
Scalability challenges. As we scale, you'll help evolve our infrastructure to defend against new threats and keep us one step ahead.
Customer impact. Delivering on our compliance goals and successfully handling audits.
Massive ownership. You own problems end-to-end, from brainstorming through to production, and you thrive in ambiguity.
Collaboration & autonomy. Plenty of heads-down technical work, but also close partnership with product engineers and engineering leadership.

About you

Cloud security specialist. Deep knowledge of GCP: IAM, VPC and networking, firewall and perimeter controls, KMS, secrets management, logging/monitoring, and org-level policy. You understand cloud-native architectures and their trade-offs.
Network security depth. You understand network segmentation, private connectivity, zero-trust patterns, TLS/mTLS, and how to secure traffic between services and to the outside world.
Platform engineer & builder. You design reliable infrastructure and write clean production code. You've built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform), and security gates at scale.
Security as an enabler. You treat engineers and the business as your customers. You automate toil, improve feedback loops, and care deeply about making other people productive.
Commercially minded. You understand that infrastructure and security exist to serve the product and the business, and you make trade-offs with that in mind.
Bias for action. You iterate quickly, ship pragmatically, and automate everything.

Lead Cloud Security Engineer

The role

Lead Cloud Security Engineer

The role

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What we're looking for

About you

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Why Encord

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