YOUR BACKGROUND THAT LIKELY MAKES YOU A MATCH

• 7+ years in security, infrastructure, or platform engineering on production cloud systems, with 2+ years managing or leading engineers
• Deep hands-on AWS security: IAM and Organizations, VPC design, sops, logging, and the services that carry sensitive data
• Production Kubernetes security experience: RBAC, network policy, admission control, workload identity, and container image hygiene
• Infrastructure-as-code fluency (Terraform or similar) and a record of shipping guardrails engineers adopted
• You've built or scaled a cloud security function, or a major part of one, and can show what changed because of it
• Strong written communication: you can write the architecture standard, the incident post-mortem, and the one-page risk summary for leadership
• You measure impact by exposure removed and time-to-detect, and you can point to numbers
• Experience in fintech, real estate tech, or another regulated, high-liability domain (Optional)
• Detection engineering or DFIR background in cloud environments (Optional)
• Hands-on use of LLMs or agents in a security workflow such as posture triage, access review, or alert enrichment (Optional)

THE TECH STACK YOU'LL SECURE

• AWS (primary), some Azure, and limited GCP (Vertex AI)
• Kubernetes and a microservice architecture, defined in Terraform and our infrastructure-as-code monorepo
• Okta for workforce identity and SSO into AWS
• NodeJS / TypeScript services, MongoDB, and an internal ClickHouse + Grafana security telemetry pipeline
• Go for internal security tooling and detection services

We are a remote-first development organization that values flexibility in how our teams work. In addition to supporting fully remote roles, we have an office in Austin, with a hybrid option available for those who live nearby and prefer in-person collaboration.

While this role is based in Austin, Texas, we're open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates.

WHY QUALIA

Qualia is made up of incredibly bright, mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems—and we're growing quickly. In order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization, we're committed to giving everyone the support they need to do great work.

Our benefits package is designed to allow our team members to be their best selves, both in and out of the workplace. In addition to comprehensive health plans, a 401k program, and commuter benefits, we prioritize family and personal well-being through professional development, parental leave, and a flexible time off policy. Qualia offers a robust online onboarding program to train new hires, biweekly all hands meetings, and a variety of internal virtual events to keep employees connected.

We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology, and our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel equally valued and respected. Qualia is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, or veteran status.

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