# Senior Platform Security Engineer - Contract to Hire at Front

- Company: Front
- What the company does: Deliver exceptional service at scale with Front, the modern CX platform combining client communication, automation, and analytics for customer-first teams. Backed by Battery, Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://front.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $187K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/frontcareers/9376f2fd-b9ac-4090-8a0d-4ea60a3ed4c5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/front-senior-platform-security-engineer-contract-to-hire/

## About the role

That software needs somewhere reliable and secure to run. You'll decide how internal software at Front gets built, deployed, secured and operated — the standards, the reference architecture, the review bar — and then you'll implement them yourself and keep them alive as the estate grows. There is no separate team to hand a standards document to. Writing it and building it are the same job.

## What they're looking for

- You've established a platform, DevOps or infrastructure practice somewhere it didn't exist — as a founding platform engineer, an early infra hire, or the person who dragged a team onto real standards. You can point at conventions still in use that you wrote
- Deep hands-on experience running production infrastructure in a major cloud — networking, IAM, compute, and the failure modes of each
- Infrastructure as code in production at scale: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or equivalent, including inheriting and refactoring someone else's modules
- Owning CI/CD pipelines end to end, including test, scan and deploy gates. Containers and orchestration
- Strong Python or Go for automation, tooling and debugging systems you didn't write
- Practical infrastructure security: cloud configuration hardening, secrets management, dependency and vulnerability management, and least-privilege access design

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