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Porter - Founding Security Engineer

New York, New York, United States
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · New York

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 12 October 2026.

About the role

Porter (porter.run): PaaS running in customers' own clouds. 24 people, $21.5M raised, NYC.

Comp: $220K-$320K + competitive equity. Location: 5 days in-office NYC; 30 days PTO + 30 days remote/yr; relocation support. Visa: Visa transfers (OPT/H1B) and new sponsorships (H1B, TN); new H1B only for exceptional candidates.

Responsibilities

  • Found the Secure Engineering function; drive internal security roadmap across ~20-person eng org
  • Build and ship customer-facing security products
  • Write production Go to harden multi-cloud infra (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes in hundreds of customer accounts
  • Own cloud/container security end-to-end: IAM, network security, secrets, workload isolation, security logging
  • Engage directly with customers' security engineers

Tech stack: Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Docker, SQL, IAM

Source: https://www.paraform.com/share/porter.run/cmubvvpl2006u0ckwwu4pugmn

  • 4+ yrs infrastructure/platform engineering; software engineer first
  • Cloud + Kubernetes security depth (IAM, network, secrets, isolation)
  • Go; AWS/GCP/Azure; Terraform
  • On-site NYC 5 days

What this role asks for

Standard for security roles

AWS

Common in security postings at any company.

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