Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
About the role
As Alkira continues to scale its cloud-native networking platform, security remains a foundational component of our success. We are seeking a Principal Security Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping and driving security strategy across cloud, infrastructure, platform, application, and operational security domains. This role sits in Platform Engineering and reports to the Director of Platform Engineering.
What they're looking for
- Define and drive the long-term security architecture and strategy across cloud, infrastructure, application, platform, and operational security domains
- Own the bug bounty program for Alkira on HackerOne: triage, severity assessment, coordination of remediation with owning teams, and researcher communication
- Serve as a technical authority for Kubernetes, container, Linux, and cloud security, influencing security decisions across engineering organizations
- Lead security architecture reviews and establish standards for secure design, implementation, and deployment of cloud-native systems
- Drive enterprise-wide risk reduction initiatives through threat modeling, vulnerability management, and proactive security assessments
- Build detection engineering and security monitoring on our observability stack (Coralogix), and lead security investigations, incident response, and post-incident improvements across complex distributed environments
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The Role
As Alkira continues to scale its cloud-native networking platform, security remains a foundational component of our success. We are seeking a Principal Security Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping and driving security strategy across cloud, infrastructure, platform, application, and operational security domains. This role sits in Platform Engineering and reports to the Director of Platform Engineering. Platform Engineering builds the foundational layer every other engineering team depends on.
This role is ideal for a highly experienced security professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural leadership. You will partner closely with engineering, platform, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders to influence security direction, guide the design of secure systems, and establish scalable security practices across the organization. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience securing Kubernetes-based environments, distributed systems, and modern cloud-native platforms while demonstrating the ability to lead complex initiatives and drive security outcomes at organizational scale.
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