Kairos Power
Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability
$141K–$165K
Remote or Alameda, CA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Remote or Alameda, CA
Alameda, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Work requires authorization by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list may not work at the facility unless the Department of Energy issues the company an export control license granting access.
About the job
Own and improve the security, reliability, and cost governance of cloud and high-performance computing platforms used by engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Define and maintain security controls, identity and secrets management, and observability across cloud and Linux platforms.
- Build reliability, recovery, and incident-response capabilities; lead incident reviews and follow-up work.
- Migrate and consolidate cloud workloads, govern platform costs, and develop and review infrastructure automation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant experience in platform, infrastructure, cloud, security, site reliability engineering, or a related field, including designing, securing, and operating production cloud infrastructure.
- Strong AWS experience and strong Linux systems experience, including administration, hardening, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code, configuration management, and programming or scripting.
- Experience implementing platform security controls and operating monitoring, recovery, and incident-response capabilities for production systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with Google Cloud, particularly designing a new environment.
- Experience securing high-performance computing environments, including Slurm, Open OnDemand, MPI, or GPU-enabled workloads.
Pay
$140,611 to $165,425 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Google Cloud, Linux, Python, AWS Managed Grafana, Slurm, Open OnDemand, MPI
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