[Remote] Senior Software Engineer (Product Security)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. vCluster Labs is a platform company building infrastructure software for AI cloud providers and AI factories. The Senior Software Engineer (Product Security) will build production features while embedding security into the product through vulnerability response, threat modeling, security-sensitive design reviews, and secure engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Building production features: Design, build, and maintain production features alongside the rest of the engineering team. When there's no security work in the queue, you work on roadmap features
• Owning vulnerability response: Triage, prioritize, and fix security issues in our code and dependencies through to a patched release
• Threat modeling new features: Review security-sensitive designs early, identify risks, and help teams make sound security decisions as the platform evolves
• Code and design reviews: Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions with the rest of the engineering team
• Improving security practices across engineering: Help engineers build secure defaults into the product

Skills

• Experience building and shipping production systems with Go as a primary language
• Working knowledge of the API server, admission control, RBAC, controllers, and the kubelet, ideally from building controllers or operators with controller-runtime, Kubebuilder, or client-go
• Hands-on experience with container breakout, privilege escalation, RBAC, and policy best practices
• Experience threat modeling and reviewing designs for production systems, and explaining risk clearly to other engineers
• Experience investigating and fixing vulnerabilities in code you work on, including the CVE lifecycle, coordinated disclosure, and patch releases
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
• Experience at an early-stage organization where you function autonomously and strive towards building something great

Benefits

• Equity
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible working schedule
• Workplace flexibility

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