{"id":649461,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-staff-security-engineer-product-platform-security","title":"Staff Security Engineer, Product & Platform Security","company":{"id":48155,"name":"Nscale","domain":"nscale.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nscale","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":45,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.267,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Houston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":190000,"max":240000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":240000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CVSS","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Threat Modeling","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-08T21:01:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-14","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T23:07:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"About Nscale\nNscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Staff Security Engineer, Product and Platform Security to lead security initiatives across Nscale’s products, cloud platforms, hyperscale GPU clusters, and critical infrastructure.\nYou’ll partner closely with engineering, platform, infrastructure, and security teams to identify and reduce risk throughout the product and technology lifecycle. You’ll provide hands-on security expertise across architecture and design reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, secure development, and incident response.\nThis role will help build and scale product and platform security practices while turning technical findings, researcher insights, and emerging threats into stronger engineering controls, clearer priorities, and measurable improvements to Nscale’s security posture.\nWhat you'll be doing\nProduct and Platform Security\nPerform vulnerability assessments, application security reviews, and testing of Nscale’s core services, including the Identity service, billing service, external APIs, and the Nscale Console.\nConduct threat modeling and architecture reviews for new products, features, services, and platform changes.\nProvide guidance on secure design, coding practices, authentication, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure security.\nDevelop reusable security standards, patterns, and guardrails that enable teams to build and deploy securely at scale.\nVulnerability Management and Remediation\nReceive, analyze, and validate vulnerability findings from internal testing, security tooling, external researchers, and other sources.\nAssign severity ratings using CVSS and assess technical and business impact to drive prioritization.\nCoordinate with engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to reproduce, validate, and remediate findings.\nCreate clear remediation roadmaps and track progress toward resolution.\nIdentify recurring vulnerability patterns and work with engineering teams to address systemic risks and technical debt.\nSecurity Coordination and Incident Response\nSupport incident classification and escalation workflows when vulnerabilities or security issues are discovered in production environments.\nCoordinate responsible disclosure timelines and remediation activities with affected stakeholders.\nContribute to root-cause analysis and process improvements following vulnerability discovery or security incidents.\nDocument findings, remediation steps, and lessons learned to improve product and platform security practices.\nMaintain detailed records of findings and resolutions for audit and compliance purposes.\nProgram Measurement and Improvement\nTrack and report on product and platform security KPIs, including vulnerability trends, remediation timelines, recurrence, and researcher engagement.\nAnalyze patterns in vulnerability types to identify systemic risks, control gaps, and technical debt.\nProvide regular insights to leadership on security risks, emerging threats, researcher feedback, and program effectiveness.\nRecommend enhancements to security controls, testing coverage, program scope, and remediation processes based on data.\nBenchmark Nscale’s product and platform security practices against industry peers in cloud infrastructure and AI/GPU platforms.\nKPIs\nReduction in product and platform security risk and recurring vulnerability types\nTime to validate, prioritize, and resolve reported vulnerabilities\nSecurity review and threat-modeling coverage for critical products and platform changes\nAdoption and effectiveness of secure engineering standards and controls\nAbout You\n10+ years of experience in information security, including substantial hands-on experience in product security, application security, platform security, or vulnerability management.\nA background in product security, application security, and penetration testing.\nDeep technical expertise in threat modeling, security architecture, vulnerability assessment, and secure coding practices.\nExperience partnering with software, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle.\nStrong understanding of CVSS scoring, vulnerability prioritization, and risk quantification.\nExperience with responsible disclosure frameworks, bug bounty programs, and coordinating multi-stakeholder vulnerability remediation.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings to researchers, engineers, leaders, and non-technical stakeholders.\nComfort working in complex, high-stakes environments where security decisions affect product reliability and customer trust.\nExperience with GPU/HPC or cloud infrastructure security, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nKnowledge of Kubernetes, container security, APIs, identity and access management, and hybrid cloud architectures.\nWhat we can offer you\nAt Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.\nHighly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. \nJoin one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies - your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. \nExpect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy - always with our full support.\nHuman-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.\nEqual Opportunities Statement\nWe strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.\nIf there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.\nThe responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.\nSalary Range\n$190,000—$240,000 USD\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nNscale does not accept unsolicited candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7883,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Technology","Data Centers","Cloud Computing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T20:22:42Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":240000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-staff-security-engineer-product-platform-security","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nscale-staff-security-engineer-product-platform-security.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T00:36:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":504,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4496,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}