[Remote] Platform Engineer - Security (100% Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. They are looking for a Platform Engineer specializing in Security to join their product development team, focusing on crafting managed Kubernetes platform offerings and enhancing security features and tooling.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for architecting and building distributed systems, as part of our managed Kubernetes offering
• You will build Kubernetes Operators, MCP servers, and orchestration tools for popular applications
• You will use, support, and become a key expert in a variety of technologies from across the open-source community, including Falco, Trivy, Kubescape, Kyverno, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Prometheus, and Flatcar Linux
• This is not a support role, but you will regularly interact with customers to investigate issues, learn about their use cases, and provide expert guidance for the things you build
• You will take part in an on-call rotation, as part of our ‘you build it, you run it’ philosophy. This includes improving operations, such as adding metrics, or building dashboards
• You will have the opportunity to participate in company “blue team” activities, like compliance, vulnerability management, and security incident response, if you desire

Skills

• You have expert experience with Go, Helm, and a strong architectural background
• You have worked extensively with Kubernetes
• You are an experienced Linux user
• You are comfortable using AI tooling as part of the development process
• You deploy to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the things
• You are comfortable building and working with distributed systems - you prefer to build your applications as multiple services instead of a single monolith
• You are able to comfortably align parts of your workday with Europe (UTC +/- 2 hours). We offer flexible working hours, but have team members and customers across time zones, and you will need to be able to regularly communicate with them
• Bonus points if you have meaningful experience with Kubernetes security tooling, have ever maintained an open-source security project, are/were an incident responder, or have worked in a 'blue team' role

Benefits

• We currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!)
• We don't count holidays but set a minimum number
• You choose your own hard- and software
• As a company that has almost, if not more, kids than employees, family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no-brainer
• We pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely
• We meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team members
• We foster this through bi-yearly personal development talks, a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshops

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