Staff Security Engineer for Cloud (Automotive)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; on-site

Salary: $205,000–$240,000 per year, depending on experience, qualifications, and location.

Company

hirify.global is an electric mobility company developing vertically integrated small EVs and a connected, software-defined vehicle platform.

What you will do

• Own cloud security strategy, architecture, implementation, and operations across AWS, Kubernetes, and a microservices platform.
• Design and implement workload identity, organization-wide IAM, least-privilege access, secrets management, and certificate and key lifecycle management.
• Harden containers and orchestration through image provenance, admission control, runtime and network policies, service mesh configuration, and microservice isolation.
• Secure the software supply chain with SBOMs, dependency and image scanning, signed artifacts, and CI/CD security gates.
• Build authorization services, policy enforcement, provisioning, and rotation tooling in Go while establishing DevSecOps guardrails and policy as code.
• Run security detection and response and secure the vehicle-to-cloud boundary, including device identity, certificate rotation, OTA updates, and anomaly detection.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend and infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial production security ownership.
• Expert hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, VPC, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config, EKS, ECS, ECR, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Deep Kubernetes and container security experience, including RBAC, admission controllers, pod security standards, network policies, runtime detection, and image hardening.
• Current production experience designing, reviewing, and shipping Go code.
• Experience securing microservices and distributed systems, identity protocols, applied cryptography, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, SAML, mutual TLS, and PKI.
• Experience with threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, incident response, assurance activities, and building a security function or program from zero.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100%, with FSA and HSA options.
• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
• Flexible time off.
• 401(k) match.