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As a Software Engineer, Platform Security, you will own the security design for both control plane and data plane, implement guardrails as code, and partner closely with Platform/SRE/Infra teams to ship a secure-by-default developer experience. This is a hands-on builder and architect role.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and implement the security architecture for a Kubernetes-based, multi-tenant serverless platform.\n\nBuild guardrails as code using Terraform and Helm.\n\nEstablish network segmentation and service-mesh policy.\n\nDevelop secrets and key management patterns.\n\nImplement runtime detections for containerized workloads.\n\nDesign and roll out IAM & workload identity management.\n\nThreat model new features and changes to the overall platform.\n\nCollaborate with engineering to debug production issues, lead post-incident hardening, and automate evidence for compliance controls.\n\nQualifications\n5+ years securing cloud-native platforms with a focus on distributed systems and multi-tenancy.\n\nBachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, VPC/networking, logging/monitoring, …) and Kubernetes/container security.\n\nProficiency with Terraform and Helm.\n\nExperience building or operating runtime detections for containers/functions.\n\nStrong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, or AI tooling\n\nClear written and verbal communication; ability to translate pricing/business rules into robust systems.\n\nPreferred Experience\nKnative or similar serverless-on-K8s frameworks.\n\nContainer hardening and sandboxing.\n\nPolicy-as-code and admission policy design at scale.\n\neBPF-based observability, detections, and signal tuning.\n\nMulti-cloud exposure and cross-cloud identity approaches.\n\nHands-on contributions to SOC 2 / HIPAA control automation and audit evidence pipelines.\n\nBenefits\nFlexible working hours\n\nDaily lunch and dinner provided; unlimited snacks and beverages\n\nSupportive and highly collaborative work environment\n\nHealth check-up support and top-tier equipment/hardware support\n\nA front-row seat to the generative AI infrastructure revolution\n\nCompetitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits.\n\nAbout FriendliAI\nFriendliAI is building the world’s best AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale. 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