Staff Kubernetes Security Engineer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
True Anomaly
Job Description
A new space race has begun. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build innovative technology that solves the next generation of engineering, manufacturing, and operational challenges for space security and sustainability.
OUR MISSION
The peaceful use of space is essential for continued prosperity on Earth—from communications and finance to navigation and logistics. True Anomaly builds innovative technology at the intersection of spacecraft, software, and AI to enhance the capabilities of the U.S., its allies, and commercial partners. We safeguard global security by ensuring space access and sustainability for all.
OUR VALUES
- Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity
- What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results
- It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together
YOUR MISSION
Kubernetes security at the scale and complexity of space operations is genuinely hard — and a lot of it is still unsolved. This role exists to change that. As our Staff Kubernetes Security Engineer, you'll build zero-trust foundations and secure paved paths that enable our platform and development teams to ship safely on Kubernetes. You'll own the security posture of our container orchestration platform across multi-cloud environments, architecting security platforms that define how we operate containers in production. Working as part of the Platform Security team, you'll have broad impact across all teams deploying containerized workloads.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll write production code daily while driving strategic security initiatives. You'll thrive on ambiguously hard problems, give yourself the toughest challenges, and have the technical maturity to drive complex security initiatives from conception to production with minimal direction. You'll be working in an AI-native environment where leveraging AI to accelerate your impact is expected.
This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect and build security platforms, frameworks, and foundational services used by platform and development teams—making secure patterns the default choice for Kubernetes deployments
- Drive adoption of security best practices and influence technical direction for Kubernetes security, workload isolation, and container deployment
- Own the security architecture and posture of our Kubernetes infrastructure across Azure and AWS environments
- Design and implement secure-by-default infrastructure including pod security policies, network policies, RBAC, admission controllers, and runtime security
- Build and ship production-grade automation, tooling, CLI utilities, and operators to enforce security best practices and detect threats across our Kubernetes clusters
- Develop secure Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), controllers, and Kubernetes operators for security automation and policy enforcement
- Lead security architecture decisions for workload isolation, secrets management, service mesh security, and supply chain security
- Design, implement, and operate PKI infrastructure for Kubernetes—including private CA hierarchies, automated certificate lifecycle management (cert-manager), service mesh mTLS certificate rotation, and certificate issuance for workloads and control plane components<
