Runpod
Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer (Systems/Kernel)
$152K–$175K
Remote - USA · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems-level security engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to sponsor employment visas; welcomes qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States.
About the job
Secures Runpod’s multitenant GPU cloud infrastructure by hardening systems and preventing breakouts across bare-metal and virtualized environments.
What you'll do
- Design workload and network isolation for multitenant GPU infrastructure; harden kernels, container runtimes, and orchestration layers.
- Assess and penetration-test hypervisors, networks, and hardware interfaces; develop low-level security controls and fixes.
- Respond to infrastructure security incidents and build forensic capabilities for ephemeral containers.
What they ask for
- Extensive knowledge of Linux kernel internals, including cgroups, namespaces, eBPF, and SELinux/AppArmor.
- Deep understanding of KVM, QEMU, and multitenant workload and network isolation.
- Strong systems-level programming skills in C, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Familiarity with GPU architecture and hardware security; experience securing bare-metal cloud infrastructure and mitigating lower-level CVEs.
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source systems security projects or virtualization research.
- Experience writing or deploying eBPF-based security tooling; deep knowledge of low-level networking protocols and virtualized network security.
Pay
$152,000 - $175,000 USD base salary; $1,200 USD home office and equipment stipend
Tools
Linux, cgroups, namespaces, eBPF, SELinux/AppArmor, KVM, QEMU, C, Go, Rust, or Python
AI focus
Secures GPU cloud infrastructure supporting AI and machine-learning workloads.
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