Neo4j
SoftwareEngineer-PlatformSecurity
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“Software Engineer - Platform Security at Neo4j. Skills: Platform Security, Cloud Security, Kubernetes Security, Infrastructure-as-Code. Develop cloud-native controls in Azure. Develop cloud-native controls in AWS”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience, Security engineering role experience, Hands-on technical involvement, Exposure to decision making processes, Cloud, Infrastructure, or Network security background, Cloud-native authentication mechanisms experience, Secrets management experience, Admission controllers experience, Service mesh experience, mTLS experience, Cloud based IAM solutions experience, Securing and hardening K8s clusters, Containerized applications hardening, Linux hosts hardening, Architect cloud-native applications, Design APIs on containers, Design microservices on containers
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus, Go programming language experience, Java programming language experience, Python programming language experience, Active interest in Cloud security, Active interest in Infrastructure security, Active interest in Network security, Familiarity with securing K8s clusters, Familiarity with hardening K8s clusters, Familiarity with containerized applications, Familiarity with hardening containerized applications, Familiarity with Linux hosts, Familiarity with securing Linux hosts, Familiarity with hardening Linux hosts
What You'll Do.
Develop cloud-native controls in Azure
Develop cloud-native controls in AWS
Develop cloud-native controls in GCP
Enforce security baseline at scale
Integrate with open-source tools
Integrate with vendor tools
Enhance product security
Define security requirements
Define software excellence requirements
Provide guidance on cloud services
Provide guidance on k8s services
Provide guidance on secure infrastructure-as-code
Provide guidance on AuthZ/AuthN techniques
Provide guidance on secrets management
Define Cloud/K8s native policies
Implement Cloud/K8s native policies
Conduct security assessments
Conduct architecture reviews
Introduce new cloud controls
Make recommendations to improve security posture
Support incident detection process
Support incident response process
Maintain cloud monitoring tooling
Maintain alerting tooling
Develop scripts for troubleshooting
Develop scripts for incident resolution
Develop scripts for security issue resolution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Aura teams; Collaborate with other teams; Guidance for Platform teams; Guidance for Engineering teams
Full Job Description
About Neo4j: Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter. Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business. Our Vision: At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data. As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive. The Team: Aura is Neo4j’s managed cloud platform, operating at scale with 800+ Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds. At its core is Omni, the platform that powers Aura. Within it, the Platform Security team ensures developers have the tools and documentation to ship secure code and create services using a secure-by-design ethos. We’re hiring experienced engineers with a security mindset to expand our tooling, add new guardrails, and partner with Aura teams on secure design. The Role: Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS and/or GCP to enforce the security baseline at scale, integrating with open-source and vendor tools as needed. Enhance product security along the software development lifecycle by creating “paved roads” and defining additional security and software excellence requirements for containeri
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