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Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.\nTrusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.\nThe Role\nEncord handles sensitive, high-value data for our customers, including in regulated industries like healthcare. In an era where exploits and supply-chain attacks are being discovered and executed faster than ever, it's vital that we stay on the cutting edge of keeping our systems and our customers' data safe.\nHardening our systems is only part of the solution. As we scale into more industries with their diverse security and regulatory requirements, we want someone who can help us attain and maintain higher levels of compliance certification.\nWhat We're Looking For\nWe're hiring at both Level 3 (Senior) and Level 4 (Staff). For calibration, candidates typically bring 5+ years of platform engineering experience in high-growth, cloud-native SaaS environments, but we care more about impact than years. We're looking for that \"T\"-shaped skillset where the candidate's depth is in Cloud Security.\nThe ideal candidate will have a product, infrastructure or network engineering background but caught the bug for security, and cares deeply about enabling people to work fast, safely. Finally, we're looking for someone who sees security as an enabler and force-multiplier, someone who answers questions with a \"Here's how we do it securely.\"\nWhat Can You Expect?\nA strong team. You'll join a team of senior and staff engineers who set a high bar and will push you to do your best work.\n\nModern, cloud-native stack. Cloud-native and IaC-driven: GCP and Terraform, with TypeScript/Python across the stack.\n\nScalability challenges. As we scale, you'll help evolve our infrastructure to defend against new threats and keep us one step ahead.\n\nCustomer impact. Delivering on our compliance goals and successfully handling audits.\n\nMassive ownership. You own problems end-to-end, from brainstorming through to production, and you thrive in ambiguity.\n\nCollaboration & autonomy. Plenty of heads-down technical work, but also close partnership with product engineers and engineering leadership.\n\nAbout You\nCloud security specialist. Deep knowledge of GCP: IAM, VPC and networking, firewall and perimeter controls, KMS, secrets management, logging/monitoring, and org-level policy. You understand cloud-native architectures and their trade-offs.\n\nNetwork security depth. You understand network segmentation, private connectivity, zero-trust patterns, TLS/mTLS, and how to secure traffic between services and to the outside world.\n\nPlatform engineer & builder. You design reliable infrastructure and write clean production code. You've built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform), and security gates at scale.\n\nSecurity as an enabler. You treat engineers and the business as your customers. You automate toil, improve feedback loops, and care deeply about making other people productive.\n\nCommercially minded. You understand that infrastructure and security exist to serve the product and the business, and you make trade-offs with that in mind.\n\nBias for action. You iterate quickly, ship pragmatically, and automate everything.\n\nNice-to-haves\nExperience securing other cloud providers (AWS, Azure) or on-premise / hybrid environments, so we can meet our customers wherever they run.\n\nISC2 (any level) or relevant cloud security certification (e.g. GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer).\n\nExperience with SaaS compliance programs (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA).\n\nOpen-source contributions to security, infrastructure, or developer-tooling projects.\n\nWhy Encord\nCompetitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup\n\nStrong in-person culture: most of the team works from our London office 4+ days/week\n\n25 days annual leave + UK public holidays\n\nAnnual learning & development budget\n\nTravel for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and Europe\n\nDaily company lunches\n\nMonthly socials & bi-annual team offsites\n\nOperating principles\nHigh agency\nYou see something broken, you fix it or find the person who can. 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