Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Space)

Location: Onsite in Denver, Colorado; Long Beach, California; or the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Salary: $145,000–$195,000 for Senior in Colorado; $150,000–$205,000 for Senior in Long Beach; or $165,000–$225,000 for Senior in the SF Bay Area, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors for space superiority and national security operations.

What you will do

• Build cloud security tooling, automation, services, CLI utilities, and dashboards for engineering teams.
• Implement secure-by-default multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, and data protection.
• Operate PKI infrastructure, private certificate authorities, certificate lifecycles, mTLS, and load-balancer certificates.
• Operate HashiCorp Vault as a production secrets-management platform with PKI, dynamic secrets, authentication methods, and policy management.
• Partner with Kubernetes security and engineering teams on unified PKI, IAM integration, network policies, node security, and CSI driver security.
• Execute CSPM, threat detection, incident response, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and cloud security improvement projects.

Requirements

• Active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one.
• U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or eligibility for required ITAR authorizations.
• Experience securing production cloud environments at scale across Azure and AWS.
• Strong Python and/or Go development skills, including security tooling and automation.
• Strong Terraform, cloud networking, IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, CSPM, CWPP, SIEM, and infrastructure-as-code security experience.
• Experience embedding security into development and operations workflows and collaborating across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on PKI experience, including certificate lifecycle management, mTLS, certificate-based authentication, and X.509/TLS troubleshooting.
• Production experience operating HashiCorp Vault, including Vault PKI, dynamic secrets, and authentication integrations with Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, mission-critical environment supporting national security space operations.
• Coordination with spacecraft engineers, ground operations, software developers, and government partners.
• Potential on-call participation for security incidents and mission-critical support.
• Occasional travel to government sites, launch facilities, or partner locations may be required.
• Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), parental leave, and equity.