Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs

Lead Security Engineer

Menlo Park

H1B sponsorship available$250k-$350kDetected 98 days ago
PythonBashCode ReviewGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxRESTMachine LearningCybersecurityNetwork SecurityIncident ResponseSupply ChainDNSFirewallResearchCommunication

About the role

  • You will secure the systems that power our research and operations, including authentication, cloud environments, clusters, internal developer platforms, identity systems, secrets, SaaS access patterns, and lab-adjacent infrastructure.
  • You will work closely with research, infra, lab, and operations teams to reduce risk without slowing down experimentation.

Responsibilities

  • Own security architecture across cloud, Kubernetes, internal services, and research infrastructure
  • Design and operate identity and access systems for both people and workloads, including SSO, MFA, RBAC, SCIM lifecycle automation, workload identity, and least-privilege access patterns
  • Build and improve secrets management across the company, including KMS, GitHub and CI credentials, 1Password or equivalent systems, and secure service-to-service authentication
  • Harden software delivery and developer workflows, including CI/CD, dependency security, build provenance, artifact integrity, and secure GitHub administration
  • Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and risk assessments for internal platforms, lab systems, and any externally exposed products
  • Build detection and response capabilities across cloud, identity, network, and endpoint telemetry, and drive incidents through containment, root cause analysis, and remediation
  • Own vulnerability management and remediation automation across hosts, containers, dependencies, SaaS, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience building and operating security controls in AWS, GCP, or Azure and in Kubernetes-based environments

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or similar experience
  • Experience with identity systems such as Okta or Entra, SAML, OIDC, SCIM, IAM, workload identity, and least-privilege design
  • Experience with secrets management and secure credential flows, including KMS, CI/CD secrets, GitHub OIDC, or service-to-service authentication

Compensation

  • $250,000-350,000 + equity

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Yes, we sponsor visas and will do everything we can to assist in this process with our legal support.
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