Quizlet
Staff Cloud Security Engineer
$200K–$263K
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- As a rough guide, 8+ years working with public-cloud infrastructure, including 5+ years in cloud security engineering; these are guidelines rather than hard cutoffs, and equivalent experience is welcome.
About the job
Sets technical direction and delivers security improvements for Quizlet’s cloud infrastructure and public-facing services, with a focus on GCP, GKE, identity, infrastructure as code, edge defenses, and data-protection controls.
What you'll do
- Lead cloud and Kubernetes security improvements, operate security tooling, and coordinate vulnerability remediation.
- Improve edge protections and build security automation, infrastructure-as-code safeguards, and controls for data protection.
- Guide cross-team security decisions, mentor engineers, and support incident response and security on-call.
What they ask for
- Experience securing GCP and GKE environments.
- Hands-on experience securing production cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads, including identity and access, networking, Linux, and containers.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform and programming languages such as Python or Go to build security controls and automation.
- Ability to translate security requirements into practical controls, automated tests, and evidence of effectiveness; record of leading complex cross-team technical work.
Nice to have
- Experience designing and tuning WAF rules, rate limits, or bot defenses; experience with Cloudflare and HUMAN/PerimeterX or comparable platforms.
- Experience operating Wiz or similar cloud security platforms, securing AI or MCP integrations, or automating data-protection and assurance controls.
Pay
$200,479 – $263,129 (base salary)
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Python, Go, Cloudflare, HUMAN/PerimeterX, Wiz
AI focus
Create self-service patterns for securely connecting AI tools and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations to approved data; experience securing AI or MCP integrations is a plus.
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