Linux Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US • Posted 28 days ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
On-site
$180,000 - $200,000/yr
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Skills

  • 5+ years of experience securing production infrastructure
  • Experience with Linux security primitives such as seccomp / eBPF and namespaces
  • Experience securing distributed systems at scale
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks including SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / and GDPR
  • Kernel-level security experience is a plus

Summary

Security Engineer (Infrastructure / Linux)

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite, 1 day WFH)

 

A well-funded client is seeking a senior Security Engineer to secure infrastructure that runs untrusted code at massive scale. This role is focused on Linux and infrastructure security, balancing strong isolation guarantees with high-performance requirements in a distributed environment.

Responsibilities

Secure high-scale infrastructure executing untrusted workloads

Design and implement defense-in-depth security for sandboxed and microVM-based systems

Build real-time threat detection across large numbers of concurrent environments

Apply Linux security primitives to enforce isolation and runtime protection

Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards while maintaining low-latency performance

 

Tech Stack

Go, Rust, C, TypeScript, Linux security, container hardening

 

Qualifications

5+ years of experience securing production infrastructure

Deep hands-on experience with Linux security primitives such as seccomp / eBPF and namespaces

Experience securing distributed systems at scale

Familiarity with compliance frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR

Comfortable working close to the system; kernel-level security experience is a plus

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  • Dice Id: 91099295
  • Position Id: 8875875
  • Posted 28 days ago
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