Security Engineer II, Product & Platform Security (Cloud Security)

Location: Houston, New York, San Francisco, or Seattle, United States

Salary: $130,000–$160,000 USD base salary per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission.

Company

Nscale provides cost-effective, high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Review cloud security posture findings across cloud platforms and hyperscale GPU infrastructure, validate technical and business impact, prioritize severity, and drive remediation to closure.
• Triage production security alerts and threats, classify and enrich findings, escalate incidents when warranted, and document decisions and impact.
• Assess logging and telemetry across cloud, Kubernetes, hosts, and production services; close coverage gaps and support reliable SIEM pipelines.
• Contribute to detections, alerting, runbooks, and guardrails that reduce recurring misconfigurations and improve signal quality.
• Reconstruct incidents, establish scope and impact, perform host, container, and cloud forensics, and support root-cause analysis.
• Maintain investigation records and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews, audit evidence, and lasting control improvements.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of security experience, including hands-on work in security operations, cloud security, detection and response, or incident response and forensics.
• Practical experience triaging findings and alerts and distinguishing real risk from noise.
• Working knowledge of cloud security and posture management in AWS, GCP, or Azure, including infrastructure misconfigurations and exposures.
• Familiarity with logging, SIEM, detection tooling, and telemetry required to detect and investigate threats.
• Exposure to incident response and digital forensics, including timelines, evidence handling, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience working with and investigating Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and APIs.
• Clear written communication for findings, severity assessments, and actionable next steps.
• Collaborative ownership of findings through resolution with engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU/HPC or large-scale multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.
• Python, Go, or Bash scripting and automation.
• Exposure to CSPM, cloud-native detection, container/Kubernetes security, and identity and access management.
• Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, or cloud security certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, innovative environment centered on ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the working day.
• Performance reviews every 12 months and a progression plan supporting deeper detection, response, and forensics expertise.
• Competitive US compensation package with base salary, bonus, and equity; benefits may include medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
• Inclusive workplace encouraging applications from underrepresented groups and offering accommodation support.