Senior Software Engineer - Cloud & Platform Security
Cssmerge · San Francisco, CA
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**Senior Software Engineer - Cloud & Platform Security** **Who we are** Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress—real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward (starting with food, mining, and transport). We integrate deeply across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate—deploying into real environments, operating them, learning from them, and improving them until they work at scale. **What you’ll do** As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud & Platform Security, you’ll work with our Infrastructure team to secure the systems that manage and control our fleet. You’ll bring deep security expertise across identity, secrets, network segmentation, and the fleet-management and remote-vehicle-control APIs. - Design and enforce least-privilege access across cloud environments (with a focus on service identities and other non-human access) - Strengthen secrets and credential management using Vault, cloud KMS, or equivalent systems - Threat model and review fleet telemetry, dispatch, and remote-vehicle-control APIs (authentication, authorization, rate limiting, replay protection) - Design and improve network segmentation to isolate fleet-management, dispatch, and remote-control systems from corporate and consumer-facing environments - Partner with Infrastructure engineers during architecture and design reviews to identify security requirements before services reach production - Review and improve Kubernetes security controls (RBAC, network policies, pod security standards) while partnering with the Infrastructure team that owns the platform **What we’re looking for** A hands-on security engineer who can embed with an experienced Infrastructure team. You should be comfortable going deep on cloud and platform security, influencing technical decisions, and helping engineers build secure systems without acting as a gatekeeper. **Basic qualifications** - 5+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform security - Hands-on experience working with production Kubernetes environments - Strong understanding of API security (OAuth/OIDC, mTLS, authentication, authorization design) - Experience designing or reviewing coarse-grained and fine-grained authorization models - Experience with secrets-management systems (HashiCorp Vault, cloud KMS, or equivalent) - Experience managing or securing non-human identities and service-to-service access - Strong understanding of network segmentation and access boundaries in cloud environments - Demonstrated ability to collaborate with infrastructure and software engineering teams and influence security decisions **Nice to have** - Experience securing real-time or low-latency control-plane systems - Familiarity with service mesh security and workload-to-workload mTLS using Istio or similar technologies **Why join us** Work on one of the defining challenges of our time—bringing automation into the physical world with real, lasting impact. The work is ambitious and challenging, grounded in purpose and a team committed to seeing it through together. **Location & schedule** - Based in our San Francisco office - Onsite, five days a week **Compensation** - Base salary range: **$167,000 - $230,000 per year** - Actual compensation varies based on experience, skills, and qualifications - You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus **Benefits (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees)** - Medical, dental, a
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