Software Engineer, DevSecOps

ABOUT SIFT

SIFT is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. SIFT turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems. Teams use Sift to build and operate rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, defense platforms, and more.

Founded by former SpaceX engineers who built the tools behind Dragon and Starlink, Sift is building the data infrastructure to herald the AI era for physical systems.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure, you will not just maintain a security checklist; you will define the posture, architecture, and practices that keep our products and infrastructure secure in the most demanding environments.

You will be both hands-on and strategic, building controls, automating compliance, and owning SIFT’s security posture end-to-end, with technical security engineering as the primary focus. You will set the standard for how we protect our systems and data, ensuring resilience against modern threats while partnering with external compliance specialists to meet the requirements of aerospace, defense, and enterprise sectors.

In This Role, You’ll:

- Build and maintain tooling, scripts, services, and automation that assess, enforce, and monitor security and compliance controls across our AWS cloud environments, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Develop lightweight internal solutions (e.g., policy-as-code, custom scanners, CI/CD integrations) that make security and compliance automatic, auditable, and invisible to the rest of engineering.

- Embed security guardrails directly into infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), container orchestration, and deployment workflows so that secure-by-default becomes the path of least resistance.

- Partner closely with the infrastructure and platform engineering teams to harden cloud-native systems, implement access controls, encryption, logging/monitoring, and vulnerability management at scale.

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