Required Skills and Experience

• Production Terraform or OpenTofu: reusable modules, state management, imports and refactors, and careful plan review
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go, plus shell scripting
• Clear, concise technical writing
• Deep hands-on AWS experience in a multi-account organization: IAM policy evaluation, Organizations and service control policies, and Identity Center or equivalent federation with an external IDP
• Cloud networking you can debug under pressure: VPC design, Transit Gateway routing and segmentation, firewalls and inspection, DNS, PrivateLink, and site-to-site VPN with BGP; you can answer “why can’t X talk to Y” across accounts
• CI/CD and container supply chain experience, including image builds, signing and verification, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning
• Hands-on experience running access to a hosted model service (Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, or similar) or an LLM gateway
• Experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code or equivalent), with a working understanding of its risks: prompt injection, excessive agency, token and secret exposure, and untrusted tool servers

Desired Skills and Experience

• AWS GovCloud experience, or work inside FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, or ITAR-controlled environments
• Greenfield landing-zone or account-vending work, including AWS Network Firewall and IPAM
• Private PKI (for example AWS Private CA), HSM-backed key management, and mTLS
• Service mesh (Istio or similar) and GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux, or similar)
• LLM gateway operations (LiteLLM or equivalent), per-user cost attribution, and model invocation logging
• Building or securing MCP servers and agent workflows
• Shared AI workflows you built that other engineers adopted: hooks, commands, rules files, skills, or agent pipelines
• Operating Kubernetes in production, preferably EKS
• FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography and hardened container images
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or other export-controlled programs
• Previous experience working on DoD and other USG development and deployment programs
• Ability to hold and maintain a USG Security Clearance

Education & Work Experience

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, security, or site reliability engineering, including 3+ years building on AWS with infrastructure as code

Compensation:

Annual Base Salary Range: $190,000.00 - $225,000.00/per year

Base pay is one part of our total compensation package (base+bonus+equity) and is determined within a range. Your actual base salary will be determined on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Our benefit plans include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k retirement plan, short and long term disability and life insurance. We also offer flexible PTO, along with 11 paid holidays, sick time and paid parental leave.

This is a full-time position in San Jose, California. This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) is required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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