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Senior Platform Security Engineer

Skyhigh · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Skyhigh

Secure your enterprise data in the AI era. Skyhigh SSE delivers unified protection across SaaS, web, and private apps—with built-in DLP, threat detection, and Shadow AI controls. Backed by Greylock.

About the role

Skyhigh Security is hiring a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Environments and Core Tooling. In this high-impact, technical role, you will be a vital player in maintaining, automating, and securing our developer labs and test environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and highly secure.

What they're looking for

  • 5 to 8 years of relevant industry experience
  • Environment & Lab Administration: Extensive, hands-on experience maintaining complex test environments, developer labs, staging infrastructures, or container registries in a modern software engineering organization
  • Systems Security Mindset: A strong understanding of core security principles (e.g, Identity & Access Management, network segmentation, least privilege) applied to on-premises systems and networks
  • Automated Auditing & Drift Detection: Ability to design systems that systematically track, document, and validate security compliance across multiple teams
  • Collaborative Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work constructively with distributed teams and security champions, acting as a helpful partner rather than a rigid blocker
  • Adaptability & Drive: Demonstrated ability to manage varied technical challenges—from complex network troubleshooting to security enforcement—with a self-motivated drive for results
More about this role

Senior Platform Security Engineer

Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry. Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency.

Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company.

Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive...

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