[Remote] Platform Engineer - Security (100% Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. They are looking for a Platform Engineer specializing in Security to join their product development team, focusing on crafting managed Kubernetes platform offerings and enhancing security features and tooling.ResponsibilitiesYou will be responsible for architecting and building distributed systems, as part of our managed Kubernetes offeringYou will build Kubernetes Operators, MCP servers, and orchestration tools for popular applicationsYou will use, support, and become a key expert in a variety of technologies from across the open-source community, including Falco, Trivy, Kubescape, Kyverno, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Prometheus, and Flatcar LinuxThis is not a support role, but you will regularly interact with customers to investigate issues, learn about their use cases, and provide expert guidance for the things you buildYou will take part in an on-call rotation, as part of our ‘you build it, you run it’ philosophy. This includes improving operations, such as adding metrics, or building dashboardsYou will have the opportunity to participate in company “blue team” activities, like compliance, vulnerability management, and security incident response, if you desireSkillsYou have expert experience with Go, Helm, and a strong architectural backgroundYou have worked extensively with KubernetesYou are an experienced Linux userYou are comfortable using AI tooling as part of the development processYou deploy to production multiple times a day, and love to automate all the thingsYou are comfortable building and working with distributed systems - you prefer to build your applications as multiple services instead of a single monolithYou are able to comfortably align parts of your workday with Europe (UTC +/- 2 hours). We offer flexible working hours, but have team members and customers across time zones, and you will need to be able to regularly communicate with themBonus points if you have meaningful experience with Kubernetes security tooling, have ever maintained an open-source security project, are/were an incident responder, or have worked in a 'blue team' roleBenefitsWe currently operate on a 32 hour workweek (or 4 day workweek, you decide!)We don't count holidays but set a minimum numberYou choose your own hard- and softwareAs a company that has almost, if not more, kids than employees, family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no-brainerWe pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotelyWe meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team membersWe foster this through bi-yearly personal development talks, a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshopsCompany OverviewGiant Swarm is to give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://giantswarm.io.