Senior Software Engineer, Security
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Job Location:
Long Beach, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 155000 - 196000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Vast our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in committed to executing our mission safely and on you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity come join us.
Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer Security reporting to the Senior Manager Software Engineering to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-timeexempt position located in our Long Beachlocation.
Responsibilities:
- Work with team to design implement and maintain a wide variety of backends tools and pipelines directly in support of Vasts mission-critical security services.
- Partner with various engineering teams to assist in the implementation and design of their security-sensitive features and services.
- Influence and adopt practices and patterns for security and software that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in computer science math or other engineering discipline.
- 6 years experience with building security services and configurations (i.e. IAM short-lived certificates API security).
- Deep security knowledge in one or more domains (i.e. cryptography network security infrastructure security).
- Development experience in any modern programming language (including but not limited to Python C Rust Go).
- Experience building shipping and supporting security applications in the cloud.
- Proficiency using the command line writing shell scripts and an understanding of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on ambiguous problems.
- Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred).
- Experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Experience with API Design.
- Deep security knowledge in one or more domains.
- Confident communicator both written and verbal.
- Collaborative mindset.
- Problem solver with a bias for action.
Pay Range:
Senior Security Software Engineer - $155000 - $196000
Salary Range: California
$155000 - $196000 USD
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls and therefore must either be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and asylees and refugees with such status granted not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Vast is developing humanity’s most capable space stations, pioneering the next giant leap toward long-term living and thriving in space.
