Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer (Systems/Kernel)
Core
Design and implement robust workload and network isolation architectures for multitenant GPU bare-metal and virtualized environments to prevent tenant breakouts and ensure infrastructure integrity.
Role type
Senior IC systems-level security engineer (kernel/virtualization)
Builds
Secure GPU cloud infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure security, Linux kernel internals, virtualization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Linux kernel internals, virtualization technologies, systems-level programming, GPU architecture, bare-metal security, threat modeling, incident response
Preferred skills
Open-source systems security contributions, eBPF-based security tooling, low-level networking protocols
Technologies
Linux, KVM, QEMU, Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, C, Go, Rust, Python, eBPF
Responsibilities
Design and implement robust workload and network isolation architectures; Harden Linux kernel configurations and container runtimes; Conduct deep-dive security assessments and penetration testing targeting hypervisors and hardware interfaces; Write code to implement custom security controls and telemetry; Evaluate and mitigate security considerations specific to GPU architecture; Serve as technical escalation point for infrastructure-level security incidents (via careerplan.io/jobs/475e7a21-59af-4ef4-b2a3-6a0e60fc1356-cloud-infrastructure-security-engineer-systemskernel-at-runpod)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
