About Fluidstack

At Fluidstack were building the infrastructure for abundant intelligence. We partner with top AI labs governments and enterprises - including Mistral Poolside Black Forest Labs Meta and more - to unlock compute at the speed of light.

Were working with urgency to make AGI a reality. As such our team is highly motivated and committed to delivering world-class infrastructure. We treat our customers outcomes as our own taking pride in the systems we build and the trust we earn. If youre motivated by purpose obsessed with excellence and ready to work very hard to accelerate the future of intelligence join us in building whats next.

About the Role

Fluidstack is looking for a seasoned Senior / Staff Network Security Engineer to spearhead our security strategy and defend our fast-growing cloud platform. You will design and deploy advanced safeguards concentrated on the network perimeter ensuring our edge remains secure resilient and reliable at massive scale. Operating in a high-throughput environment youll keep our infrastructure and services protected while earning trust across the organization. The ideal hire brings 5 years of deep expertise in modern cloud and network architecturesand a passion for cultivating a security-first culture through mentorship and leadership.

Focus

• Perimeter & Edge Security Design: Architect and deploy resilient protections at the network edge including perimeter firewalls proxy layers WAFs and CDN-based controlsto shield Fluidstacks globally distributed footprint. Every ingress point and service should be hardened against unauthorized activity and attack vectors.

• DDoS Resilience: Create and maintain sophisticated DDoS-defense programs that preserve uptime. Continuously analyze traffic fine-tune safeguards such as rate-limiting and traffic filtering and react decisively to volumetric spikes or atypical patterns.

• Driving Zero-Trust: Lead the rollout of a Zero-Trust model across Fluidstacks cloud and network domains. Engineer solutions that enforce least-privilege continuous verification and service micro-segmentation eliminating implicit trust at every tier.

• Monitoring & Incident Handling: Stand up comprehensive network-security monitoring to surface threats early. Detect indicators of compromise hunt for vulnerabilities and orchestrate rapid incident-response actions to limit blast radius.

• Cross-Team Partnership: Collaborate closely with Networking Infrastructure SRE/DevOps and Software Engineering to embed security best practices into designs deployments and pipelines. Offer expert input during architecture and code reviews to guarantee security-by-design.

• Leadership & Mentoring: Champion security initiatives and cultivate a security-first culture. Coach junior engineers and peer teams on network-security fundamentals deliver training and model strict adherence to policies and standards.

• Policy Stewardship: Author refine and enforce security policies and SOPs suited to a highly scalable distributed environment. Periodically reassess network and cloud-security posture ensuring alignment with industry benchmarks as the company scales.

About You

• Proven Experience: 5 years in hands-on network-security engineering protecting large-scale cloud or hyperscale environments and complex distributed systems.

• Edge-Security Mastery: Deep expertise in edge-protection technologies - DDoS mitigation web-exploit defense and Zero-Trust implementations.

• Cloud & Network Know-How: Strong conceptual and practical command of modern cloud and network security. Proficient in protocols (TCP/IP DNS BGP HTTP/S) segmentation VPNs and firewall tuning; experienced securing AWS GCP Azure or bespoke hyperscale and containerized platforms.

• Security Leadership: Demonstrated ability to own security programs end-to-end mentor engineers and instill a security-centric mindset across varied teams.

• Collaborative Communicator: Excellent at partnering with Networking Infrastructure DevOps/SRE and Software groups to craft security solutions that protect critical assets while empowering the business.

• Policy & Compliance Expertise: Skilled in crafting and evaluating security controls for massively scalable systems and familiar with frameworks such as NIST ISO 27001 and SOC 2 in cloud contexts.

Nice to haves

• Hyperscale Background: Experience inside a top-tier cloud provider or hyperscale setting (FAANG-class or similar) and familiarity with unique security challenges at extreme scale.

• DDoS/WAF Toolset: Acquainted with enterprise-grade DDoS and web-application-security platforms - Cloudflare AWS Shield Akamai Arbor F5 etc. - and adept at tuning WAF rules and traffic-scrubbing tactics.

• Zero-Trust & IAM: Hands-on design of Zero-Trust networks including IAM SSO MFA and NAC solutions.

• Automation & Scripting: Comfortable scripting or coding (Python Go etc.) to automate security workflows integrate tools and secure IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

• Certifications: Credentials such as CISSP CCSP GIAC (GSEC GCIH ) or cloud-security specialties (AWS/Azure) that attest to a solid security foundation.

• Lifelong Learner: Active in the security community or open-source projects with current knowledge of emerging threats vulnerabilities and defenses in network and cloud security.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary equity).

• Retirement or pension plan in line with local norms.

• Health dental and vision insurance.

• Generous PTO policy in line with local norms.

The base salary range for this position is $200000 - $350000 per year depending on experience skills qualifications and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email please email with your resume/CV the role youve applied for and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Required Experience:

Staff IC