Founding Security Engineer
Founding Security Engineer at Porter — New York, NY, US
- Company: Porter
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 200000–300000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
Porter is the cloud platform for modern tech companies.
We provide the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost, allowing the next generation of builders to run anything, anywhere.
Traditional engineering orgs have to allocate time and money to managing AWS, Azure, and GCP, and quickly become locked in. We enable top engineering teams to instantly create production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their application code, and easily monitor and manage it, unlocking them to focus on what they do best – building a great product.
We are a company that cares about building something beautiful. We are not afraid of tackling the hardest problems. We are looking for people who want to do the best work of their lives while building the future of tech.
The Role:
We are looking for our first security engineer to champion both our internal security posture and new security features for our users. Fundamentally, this role is a software engineering role: we are looking for someone who loves thinking about security in and around the cloud and is eager to roll their sleeves up and tackle these problems at every layer of the stack.
You will:
Found our Secure Engineering team, comprised of both 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
The kinds of experience we are looking for:
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 (especially as they apply to APIs)
Vulnerability discovery/research - especially common web vulnerability (SQLi, XSS, etc)
Secure development practices, particularly teaching/helping others adopt them
Cloud/infra security
Building/maintaining security logging systems
AWS IAM and related tech
General cloud security best practices
Secret management
Network security
Container security
What we offer
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
This role is in-person in NYC.