Cloud Security Engineer
Posted on 7/19/2023
INACTIVE
Lacework

501-1,000 employees

Security platform for the cloud
Company Overview
Lacework's mission is to become the security platform for the cloud. The company focuses on building modern, robust security infrastructure at scale.
Cybersecurity
Data & Analytics
B2B

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$1.9B

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-16%

1 year growth

-23%

2 year growth

-31%
Locations
United States
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Kubernetes
Rust
Microsoft Azure
Python
Java
Docker
AWS
Snowflake
Google Cloud Platform
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in a security engineering role
  • Deep knowledge of current threat intelligence and modern attacker exploits
  • Deep knowledge of hardening cloud environments
  • Deep knowledge of generic platform hardening
  • Ability to write code in common languages like Python, Java, Go or Rust
  • Good knowledge and experience with network protocols, cryptography, security threats, attack techniques, evasive techniques, detection and prevention methods
  • Good knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes and how to secure those environments
  • Understanding of real-time threat detection, secrets management, security considerations within build, release, CI/CD and other similar tooling
  • Good understanding of database knowledge, with Snowflake experience being highly desirable
  • Experience working remotely across many time zones and cultures
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to target your communication to the audience, whether technical or not
Responsibilities
  • Evaluate the security controls of the various cloud provider environments
  • Willing and able to automate, automate, automate!
  • Find creative solutions to harden our environments against threats
  • Develop new security controls into our product offerings
  • Improve our logging capabilities, both internally and within the product
  • Work with other teams to discover new opportunities to secure our platforms
  • Assist with code reviews, evaluate code for security issues and participate in secure code designs
  • Build security utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and other Security Engineers to operate at high velocity; and extend that use to other teams in a DevSecOps cultural model
  • Provide subject matter expertise on architecture, authentication and system security
  • Advocate for best-security practices to the entire engineering organization
Desired Qualifications
  • Good AWS knowledge and hands on experience. for experience with all three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)