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Cloud Security Lead

Replit

Responsibilities

  • Cloud Security Engineering
  • Lead configuration hardening across, with additional oversight of workloads and integrations running in
  • Own and optimize
  • platforms across multi-cloud environments—establishing configuration baselines, guardrails, and remediation workflows.
  • Lead
  • infrastructure vulnerability management
  • across multi-cloud systems, containers, registries, and platform services.
  • Enhance security across
  • containerized and Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS)
  • across cloud/SaaS providers, ensuring audit logs, retention, and routing meet monitoring and architecture needs.

secure by default

  • Security Monitoring, Compliance/GRC, Architecture, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and ML Infrastructure
  • Participate in communicating security advisories, best practices, and updates to Replit’s customers.
  • Support incident investigations as a cloud security subject-matter expert.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with 3+ years in a senior or lead role.
  • Hands-on experience with
  • SaaS platforms
  • Operational experience with
  • across cloud and container environments.

Preferred

  • across GKE, EKS, or AKS.
  • Strong IaC security experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tooling.
  • Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS).
  • Experience supporting engineering teams in building secure-first, cloud-native or PaaS environments.
  • Background securing AI/ML pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, or developer platform services.
  • Experience in high-growth technology or cloud-native product companies.
  • Experience with securing AI/agentic systems and sensitive data pipelines.
  • Automation/scripting with
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS/Azure security certs).

AWS

  • and
  • Azure

CSPM

Secure critical

  • SaaS platforms, ensuring proper configurations, access controls, and engineering integrations.
  • workloads, including runtime protections, network policies, and workload identity.
  • Assess secure logging configurations

Secure Development & Architecture Enablement

  • Partner with engineering teams to make services, embedding security into development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployments.
  • Cross-Functional Responsibilities

Required Skills & Experience

CSPM tools

  • (Wiz, Lacework, Prisma, Orca, SCC, etc.).
  • Deep expertise in

GCP security

  • (IAM, VPC, KMS, GKE, Cloud Logging).
  • Experience securing and governing and identity integrations.
  • infrastructure vulnerability management
  • Working knowledge of

AWS

and/or

Azure security services and configurations.

Experience with

container and Kubernetes security

Preferred Qualifications

Python.

What We Value

Problem-solving mindset

— Ability to break down complex security and operational challenges into clear engineering solutions.

Autonomy

— Comfortable leading initiatives, collaborating effectively, and driving outcomes with minimal oversight.

Communication excellence

— Able to translate deep technical concepts for engineers, executives, and enterprise customers.

Continuous learning

— Passion for staying current with AI security, cloud-native advances, and emerging threats.

Automation-first approach

  • Belief in reducing operational toil and building scalable, self-healing systems.
  • This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (

US Only

  • ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
  • 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
  • 🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
  • 🚗 Commuter Benefits (

In-Office & US Only

  • 📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • 🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment
  • 🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (

In-Office Only

  • 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
  • ☕ In Office Amenities (

In-Office Only

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Reasons not to work at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.