Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Senior Product Security Engineer
$150K–$206K
Irvine, California · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in security engineering.
About the job
Own and operate PKI, certificate lifecycle, and authentication infrastructure for connected vehicle and EV-charging products.
What you'll do
- Design, issue, provision, renew, and revoke certificates; maintain trust stores and certificate authorities.
- Build and operate shared platform infrastructure for charging PKI, authentication, and secure provisioning.
- Deploy and support production services, document systems, and mentor engineers on PKI and platform concepts.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security engineering with hands-on production PKI and certificate lifecycle management experience.
- Strong knowledge of public-key cryptography, X.509 certificates, TLS/mTLS, and HSM/TPM-backed key storage.
- Production implementation experience with authentication and authorization standards such as OAuth2 and OIDC.
- Familiarity with EV charging PKI or charging communication standards, or comparable domain-specific PKI experience; proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar backend language and production service operations.
Nice to have
- Experience with service mesh and workload identity technologies such as Istio, SPIRE/SPIFFE, or Cilium/eBPF.
- Experience with API gateway/ingress patterns, cloud infrastructure, and observability practices.
Pay
$149.8K – $205.9K USD base salary; annual target bonus of 10% (amount not stated)
Tools
PKI, X.509, TLS/mTLS, HSM/TPM, OAuth2, OIDC, Kubernetes, Go
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