Vast is building artificial gravity space stations to enable long-term stays in space. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Security to support the development and maintenance of its cybersecurity infrastructure for its mission-critical security services and features.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience with building security services and configurations (i.e. IAM, short-lived certificates, API security)
- Deep security knowledge in one or more domains (i.e. cryptography, network security, infrastructure security)
- Development experience in any modern programming language (including but not limited to Python, C++, Rust, Go)
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting security applications in the cloud
- Proficiency using the command line, writing shell scripts, and an understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system
- Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred)
- Experience with API Design
Responsibilities
- Work with team to design, implement, and maintain a wide variety of backends, tools, and pipelines directly in support of Vast’s mission-critical security services
- Partner with various engineering teams to assist in the implementation and design of their security-sensitive features and services
- Influence and adopt practices and patterns for security and software that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team
Other
- Full-time, exempt position
- Located in Long Beach
- Confident communicator, both written and verbal
- Collaborative mindset
- Problem solver with a bias for action
