Senior Security Program Engineer

About Phaidra

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation.

The world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.

Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:

• We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.
• We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning.
• We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.

Our team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact.

Phaidra’s ability to achieve its mission is determined by our ability to work together — as defined by our core values: Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy. We seek individuals who embody these values, as they are instrumental in ensuring our team consistently delivers excellence and fosters an engaging and supportive culture

Phaidra is based in the USA, but we are 100% remote with no physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, and India.

Who You Are

We are looking for a Senior Security Program Engineer to be the cornerstone of our product security efforts, embedding security into the DNA of our groundbreaking technology from the ground up. Security is not an afterthought; it is the bedrock of trust for our customers.

We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA or Canada.

• In the United States, we accept applicants located in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington. 
• In Canada, we accept applicants located in the following provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.

Responsibilities

• You will own Phaidra’s Product Security Program, developing and integrating cloud & application security into our Security Development Lifecycle practices.
• You will engage our Engineering, Research, and our Developer Corps, facilitating threat modeling and other threat informed practices driving greater security and resiliency across our service set.
• You will design secure infrastructure and reference architectures  and drive their implementation to secure Phaidra and its customer facing networks and systems.
• You will build security tools and processes to protect, monitor and remediate critical infrastructure using DevSecOps and SRE methodologies.
• You will help secure our CI/CD pipeline.
• You will conduct security reviews of core IT and production infrastructure.
• You will work with GCP and on-premise hosting platforms using Cloud Native technologies like Kubernetes.
• You will build and maintain cross-functional relationships with internal teams to drive initiatives.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience with Cloud and Networking infrastructure on AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Good understanding of the Linux Operating System, Networking, Security Monitoring, Intrusion Detection & Response, Authentication & Access Control and Security Protocols.
• Proven experience with Web Application security assessments and penetration testing.
• Programming e