Job Description

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain security controls across Deepgram’s bare-metal fleet and AWS footprint, including access management, network segmentation, firewalling, encryption, secrets management, logging, detection, endpoint security, and vulnerability management.
• Own Ansible-based configuration management and host hardening across hundreds of Linux hosts, ensuring reproducible baselines and detectable configuration drift.
• Secure Docker workloads and image pipelines through registry scanning, runtime hardening, detection, and secrets management.
• Run vulnerability management and patch management programs, including prioritization, remediation coordination, patch SLAs, exception tracking, and automation.
• Own the penetration testing lifecycle from scoping and vendor selection through remediation tracking, retesting, and customer-shareable summaries.
• Write and tune detections, participate in incident response, and improve logging, telemetry, and security-agent coverage.
• Automate log and access reviews and generate repeatable evidence for SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 audits.
• Harden GitHub Actions CI/CD and the software supply chain through dependency and secret scanning, action pinning, SBOMs, artifact and image signing, and least-privilege OIDC.
• Apply AI and agentic tooling to security work and help secure the company’s use of AI.
• Provide technical input for customer-facing security questionnaires, architecture answers, penetration test summaries, and guidance for self-hosted customers.

Requirements

• Experience in security engineering or infrastructure engineering with a security focus, including ownership of production controls.
• Deep Linux experience, including hardening, debugging, users and sudo, SSH, systemd, kernel and package updates, host firewalls, and host-based agents.
• Required fleet-scale Ansible experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Go, along with shell proficiency.
• Production experience securing Docker containers and their build pipelines.
• Hands-on experience securing GitHub and GitHub Actions, including branch protection, CODEOWNERS, workflow permissions, secrets, and third-party action risk.
• Experience operating vulnerability and patch management programs and driving remediation across engineering teams.
• Experience managing third-party penetration tests and converting findings into completed engineering work.
• Hands-on involvement in at least one ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 audit as the engineer producing and defending evidence.
• Comfort using AI coding and agentic tools while understanding prompt injection, secret leakage, and supply-chain risks.
• Preferred experience includes datacenter or colocation infrastructure, IPMI/BMC, detection engineering, SIEM/HIDS ownership, HashiCorp Vault, AWS security, Terraform, Kubernetes security, penetration testing or red teaming, PCI DSS in a cardholder data environment, secure SDLC ownership, GPU infrastructure, ML platforms, or multi-tenant inference workloads.
• Preferred certifications include OSCP, GIAC, CISSP, or AWS Security Specialty.

Benefits

• The role is open to strong mid-level and senior candidates, with title, scope, and compensation calibrated to demonstrated experience.
• The role reports to the Director of Information Security.
• The position offers hands-on ownership of security controls on a small, high-trust, fast-moving team.
• Employees are expected to actively use and experiment with AI and agentic tooling in their daily work.

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