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Principal Platform Security Engineer

Upstart

Remote · United States$15,883–21,992 gross/mofull-timeUpstart Careers

We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant.

Responsibilities

  • Own the security roadmap for cloud, platform, compute, and deployment environments, partnering with infrastructure, platform, SRE, and product engineering leaders to reduce risk across multiple organizations.
  • Lead security architecture reviews for critical infrastructure initiatives, influencing technical decisions in areas such as cloud IAM, Kubernetes, container security, network segmentation, secrets management, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Identify and reduce systemic infrastructure security risks by designing durable preventative controls, guardrails, and automation that improve security outcomes across engineering teams.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve the security of AI-assisted developer workflows and GenAI-enabled systems, including agentic tooling, coding assistants, and internal AI integrations that interact with production or sensitive environments.

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    Posted
    10 Feb 2026
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