# Infrastructure Security Engineer

Hiring organization: [Modal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/modal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e3734600-c122-4756-bc6d-a232d1b36fc5

Listed on Modal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 150000 – 270000 USD per year

## Summary

Modal is seeking an engineer to build security into their AI infrastructure platform, protecting multi-tenant workloads across container orchestration, identity management, and cloud systems. This is a hands-on role designing and implementing isolation mechanisms and secure primitives rather than managing compliance or policy.

_Our summary, not Modal's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Authentication, Containerization, Kubernetes, Networking

## Required

- Experience securing cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems in production
- Background in infrastructure, backend, or security engineering
- Experience in multi-tenant or high-scale environments
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration systems
- Experience designing or securing isolation mechanisms in multi-tenant systems
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, and service identity models
- Experience with secrets management and secure credential handling
- Strong foundation in networking and access boundaries
- Builder mentality with hands-on design and implementation
- Pragmatic approach to security in fast-moving environments

## Nice to have

- Experience with sandboxing or runtime isolation technologies like gVisor, Firecracker, or seccomp
- Familiarity with kernel-level or low-level isolation primitives
- Production experience securing Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
- Background in developer infrastructure, compute platforms, or multi-tenant systems

Apply on Modal's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/8de60620-09bf-4905-910f-a290814a29ee/application