Full-Time Senior Staff Platform Security Engineer

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a highly motivated and skilled Senior Staff Platform Security Engineer to join our Security team. This individual contributor (IC) role is hands-on and execution-focused, requiring expertise in application security, cloud security, and DevSecOps. You will work closely with engineering teams to integrate security into the development lifecycle, automate security processes, and ensure resilience against emerging threats. This is a full-time position based remotely in the US.

Technologies You’ll Use

• Scripting Languages (Python, Go, Bash)
• Java
• IaC (Terraform)
• Github
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Platform (AWS, GCP & Azure)
• Build Tools (Maven, Buildkite, NPM)
• Container Technology (Docker, Kubernetes)

What You’ll Do

• Architect and implement security solutions that protect cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate security tooling into the SDLC, enabling seamless DevSecOps adoption.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Automate security processes by developing integrations and security checks for machine configurations, container images, IAM policies, firewall rules, and cloud storage policies.
• Perform security design reviews for enterprise applications, ensuring compliance with security best practices and industry standards.
• Apply and enhance security assessment tools and processes, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, SIEM, DLP, and EDR.
• Lead threat modeling efforts to operationalize and automate security across system and software development lifecycles.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to tackle security challenges across the stack while fostering a security-first culture.
• Stay up-to-date with cybersecurity threats, trends, and industry standards to ensure Fivetran remains resilient against emerging risks.

Skills We’re Looking For

• Proven experience securing cloud-native applications in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deep expertise in cloud security, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and securing cloud deployments.
• Strong software development and scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash, HCL).
• Solid understanding of security best practices across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience automating security infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, or other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

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