Senior Engineer, Platform Security and Reliability
Kairos PowerRemote
Full Time
Posted October 13, 2026
Nuclear Energy
Remote
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 14, 2026
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Job Description
Kairos Power is looking for a Senior Platform Security and Reliability Engineer to work within a small software and infrastructure team that supports the needs of our design, research, and development organizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in platform, infrastructure, cloud, security, site reliability engineering, or a related field, including experience designing, securing, and operating production cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience designing, securing, and operating production cloud infrastructure, with strong AWS experience.
- Strong Linux systems experience, including administration, hardening, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code, configuration management, and programming or scripting.
- Experience implementing platform security controls across areas such as access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.
- Experience designing and operating monitoring, recovery, and incident-response capabilities for production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to design maintainable infrastructure and make sound technical tradeoffs involving security, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.
- Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Google Cloud, particularly the design of a new environment is desirable.
- Experience with cloud cost management, including cost attribution, budgets, and resource guardrails is desirable.
- Experience securing high-performance computing environments, including Slurm, Open OnDemand, MPI, or GPU-enabled workloads is desirable.
- Experience with container security, including Docker and Apptainer is desirable.
- Experience operating self-hosted engineering services such as GitHub Enterprise, Overleaf, application servers, or relational databases is desirable.
- Experience with vulnerability management and patch automation across a fleet is desirable.
- Experience automating control evidence against an established security control framework desirable.
- Experience supporting scientific or engineering computing users desirable.
- Advanced degree in a related technical field is desirable.
- Occasionally requires working weekends.
- Occasionally requires schedule flexibility.
- Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines.
- Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
Benefits & Perks
- We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
- Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
- Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810
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