Sr. Staff Security Architect (Distributed Storage)

Location: Remote - California; hybrid work arrangement

Company

hirify.global develops distributed storage platforms for high-performance, multi-tenant, and AI-driven workloads.

What you will do

• Design and implement end-to-end security architecture across data path, control plane, and protocol layers.
• Secure S3-compatible, POSIX/NFS, and KV cache-based data services, including APIs, request signing, session management, and endpoint security.
• Define encryption, key management, IAM, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, MFA, and federation frameworks across tenants, datasets, and resources.
• Lead threat modeling, security reviews, SSDLC practices, observability, anomaly detection, and data-exfiltration monitoring.
• Strengthen multi-tenant isolation, auditability, compliance, and secure integration with external services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to protocol, storage, platform, and other engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in security architecture, infrastructure security, or distributed systems.
• Experience designing security for large-scale distributed systems or storage platforms.
• Deep expertise in encryption technologies, cryptographic frameworks, key management, and external KMS integration using KMIP or similar protocols.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, MFA, federation, LDAP, Active Directory, and OIDC.
• Experience with secure API design, TLS 1.3, mutual TLS, request signing, multi-tenant isolation, logging, auditing, and SIEM integration.

Nice to have

• Security architecture experience with S3, POSIX/NFS, KV cache systems, memory tiering, or AI/ML data infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with BYOK, tenant-scoped key management, metadata-based ABAC, zero trust architecture, and cryptographic erasure.
• Knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or FedRAMP compliance frameworks.
• Experience with anomaly detection, security analytics, alerting, and high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with protocol, storage, platform, and ecosystem engineering teams.
• Opportunity to influence system design, implementation, and long-term platform evolution.
• Focus on secure-by-design engineering for distributed storage and AI-driven workloads.