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Founding Security Engineer

Porter· Engineering
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New York City, NY$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Porter is hiring the company’s first security engineer to champion internal security and security features for customers. The role blends software engineering with security across cloud platforms and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Found our Secure Engineering team, comprised of security-focused engineers and non-security engineers rotating in project-by-project
  • Drive our internal security roadmap and champion security best-practices to the rest of the team
  • Ship security features to our customers

Qualifications

  • Software engineering
  • Proficiency in Go
  • Testing (unit testing, integration testing)
  • System architecture and design
  • Database skills (SQL, etc)
  • Building APIs and associated tooling
  • Infra-as-Code
  • Systems administration / operation (Kubernetes, Database admin)
  • Application security (Authn/Authz for APIs, vulnerability discovery/research)
  • Secure development practices, particularly teaching/helping others adopt them
  • Cloud/infra security (security logging systems, AWS IAM, secret management, network security, container security)

Skills

Required:GoUnit testing and integration testingSystem architecture and designSQL / Database skillsAPIs and toolingInfra-as-CodeKubernetesAuthn/Authz for APIsVulnerability discovery/researchSecure development practicesCloud security best practicesSecret management / Cloud securityNetwork securityContainer security

Benefits

  • Top-of-market compensation that grows with the company
  • Medical, vision, dental insurance
  • 401k
  • 6 weeks of PTO, 6 weeks of remote work
  • Free lunch and office snacks
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Easiest way to deploy on AWS/GCP/Azure

Porter is the easiest way to deploy and scale your applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Connect your own cloud account, and Porter will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you - simply point at your repository and Porter will handle the rest, from building your application to autoscaling it. Under the hood, Porter manages the same kind of infrastructure that growth-stage companies use and allows you to scale without DevOps overhead.

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