Staff Security Engineer (Cloud)

TL;DR

Staff Security Engineer (Cloud): Designing and implementing foundational security controls that protect the platform, data, and users within a large-scale SaaS environment. Focus on architecting secure cloud environments, driving data protection strategies, enhancing identity and access management, and solving complex security challenges.

Location: Onsite in Austin, Texas, United States. Access to US-controlled technology, software, and data is required.

Salary: $168,560.00–$231,770.00 USD Annual

Company

hirify.global is a company developing a secure, scalable, and resilient cloud product and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable IAM guardrails for cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and corporate (Okta) environments.
• Lead the evaluation and implementation of new security technologies and platforms.
• Design the long-term application security strategy and roadmap (e.g., Zero Trust architecture).
• Solve entire classes of vulnerabilities permanently by re-architecting frameworks or platforms.
• Lead critical incident response efforts for product security breaches.
• Drive the technical roadmap for data protection, including key management (KMS), encryption, and tokenization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in a hands-on technical security role, with at least 3 years focused on cloud security in a large-scale SaaS environment.
• Deep expertise in multiple security domains including product/application security, IAM, and IaaS.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) and its security services (IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty).
• Strong experience with identity and access management platforms (IdP, IGA, PAM) and concepts (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM).
• Proven experience building security guardrails for IaC (Terraform preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• A "builder" mindset with a passion for automation (Python, Go, or similar) and shipping solutions as code.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to mentor other engineers and scale security knowledge across the organization.
• High-impact role solving complex security challenges and protecting data for millions of users.
• Work on a rotational on-call support basis.
• Competitive compensation package which may include equity.