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$150,000 – $270,000
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What this role is
Modal is hiring an infrastructure security engineer to embed security into the core systems powering their AI compute platform, focusing on container isolation, multi-tenant boundaries, and identity management. This hands-on role is ideal for someone who wants to design and implement production security in distributed systems rather than manage compliance.
Our summary, not Modal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
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 credential handling
- Strong foundation in networking concepts
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