Security Engineer, Kubernetes

Job overview

The Security Engineer, Kubernetes role is onsite in Austin, TX. Compensation is $100,000–$258,000 per year. SpaceXSI is building a superintelligence technology stack, and this role protects the platform behind X and SpaceXSI. The engineer identifies Kubernetes platform risks and turns findings into durable fixes, controls, and tooling. The work helps secure infrastructure, products, and workloads at fleet scale while enabling platform and product teams to act on security issues.

What you'll do

• Secure nodes, clusters, pods, roles, tokens, secrets, service-to-service communication, and supply chain
• identify and remediate overprivileged permissions and risky workload settings
• safely validate attack paths and fix findings
• build security tooling and automation
• strengthen identity and secrets handling
• improve supply-chain security
• review security-impacting changes
• partner with platform and product teams on fixes and rollout.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

security engineer

kubernetes

austin tx

spacexsi

platform security

cloud-native security

kubernetes security

security tooling

supply-chain security

go

python

rust

$100k–$258k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k)
• short- and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• discounts and other perks.

Why this role

The listing also names Palo Alto, DC, and New York as office options. Requires 3+ years in platform security, Kubernetes security, or offensive security against production infrastructure; tooling may be built or modified in Go, Python, or Rust.

About the employer

SpaceXSI is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.