# Principal Security Engineer at Alkira

- Company: Alkira
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.alkira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $132K to $242K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://alkira.bamboohr.com/careers/272
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkira-principal-security-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - R&D