Senior Software Engineer, Security

Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Security, reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

• Work with team to design, implement, and maintain a wide variety of backends, tools, and pipelines directly in support of Vast’s mission-critical security services.
• Partner with various engineering teams to assist in the implementation and design of their security-sensitive features and services.
• Influence and adopt practices and patterns for security and software that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline.
• 6+ years experience with building security services and configurations (i.e. IAM, short-lived certificates, API security).
• Deep security knowledge in one or more domains (i.e. cryptography, network security, infrastructure security).
• Development experience in any modern programming language (including but not limited to Python, C++, Rust, Go).
• Experience building, shipping, and supporting security applications in the cloud.
• Proficiency using the command line, writing shell scripts, and an understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience working on ambiguous problems.
• Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred).
• Experience working with multiple programming languages.
• Experience with API Design.
• Deep security knowledge in one or more domains.
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Problem solver with a bias for action.

Pay Range:

• Senior Security Software Engineer - $155,000 - $196,000