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Distributed Systems Security Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building next-generation security controls and services for on-prem and cloud clusters of the world's largest AI chip.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems security engineer

Builds

Security hardening for bare metal, virtualized, and k8s containerized cluster stacks

Domain

AI hardware infrastructure, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud security

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

HPC cluster security, Kubernetes hardening, bare metal security, networked system security, threat modeling, secure boot configuration, workload identity management

Preferred skills

AWS experience, distributed compute systems knowledge

Responsibilities

Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments; Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions; Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack; Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning; Balance engineering outcomes with security controls; Document security posture and strategy for technical and nontechnical audiences

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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