Engineering Tech Lead (Product Security)

Location: Remote in Canada or EMEA

Compensation: United States $150K–$200K annually; Germany €80K–€135K annually; Canada CA$140K–CA$200K annually. Equity and bonuses are offered.

Company

hirify.global Labs is a venture-backed startup building open-source Kubernetes tenant isolation and AI infrastructure platforms for AI cloud providers and AI factories, supporting GPU infrastructure, managed Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, and inference clusters.

What you will do

• Perform penetration testing of products and infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes and container isolation.
• Own vulnerability response by triaging, prioritizing, investigating, and fixing security issues through patched releases.
• Threat-model new features and review security-sensitive designs to identify risks early.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions with engineering.
• Improve security practices and secure defaults across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in production systems, with deep Kubernetes expertise.
• Hands-on knowledge of the Kubernetes attack surface, including container breakout, privilege escalation, RBAC, and policy best practices.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, admission control, RBAC, controllers, and kubelet.
• Experience building controllers or operators with controller-runtime, Kubebuilder, or client-go.
• Experience threat-modeling and reviewing designs for production systems, and explaining risk clearly to engineers.
• Experience investigating and fixing vulnerabilities in code, including the CVE lifecycle, coordinated disclosure, and patch releases.
• Experience building and shipping production systems with Go as the primary language.

Nice to have

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist certification.
• Experience at an early-stage organization with autonomous execution.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with workplace flexibility and a flexible working schedule.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees and eligible dependents, varying by country.
• Competitive compensation with equity and country-specific benefits.
• Values include ownership, bias for action, open-source contribution, meritocracy, and intentional development of infrastructure standards.