Starbridge
Senior Security & Infrastructure Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York City · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship is required.
About the job
Strengthen cloud and application security, manage vulnerabilities and compliance evidence, and help improve infrastructure reliability and security tooling.
What you'll do
- Harden AWS and GCP environments, manage vulnerability remediation, and maintain compliance documentation and audit evidence.
- Improve deployment pipelines, monitoring, backups, incident response, and application security in partnership with engineering.
- Build automations and contribute code to improve security, stability, and operational workflows, including experimenting with AI tools and agents.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in security, infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, with meaningful production security responsibility.
- Strong cloud infrastructure skills and experience operating and securing Kubernetes, containers, IAM, networking, and storage.
- Practical vulnerability management experience and working knowledge of security and compliance practices.
- Solid programming skills; experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD; U.S. citizenship required.
Nice to have
- Experience in government or regulated environments, or working with security providers, auditors, or assessors.
- Experience with Wiz, CrowdStrike, Vanta, PostgreSQL, Python backend development, container hardening, software supply chain security, or securing AI applications.
Pay
$200K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, Helm, Jenkins
AI focus
Experiment with AI tools and agents to automate repetitive workflows; securing AI applications, agents, and third-party integrations is a bonus.
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