# Cloud Security Engineer

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, London, New York City, Remote (United States), Serbia
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220K – $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/b932d73f-49f3-4367-8fa7-a22f760e55a3
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_49bcfb3f-03d

## Description

Perplexity is seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Cloud Security Engineer to join our dynamic security team. In this role, you'll lead efforts to build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers engineers to innovate quickly and safely.

## What you'll do

Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to embed security into development workflows and promote secure-by-default patterns.

- Build Terraform modules with built-in security guardrails, such as logging, encryption, and automated threat detection enablement.

- Deploy cloud-native detection capabilities using AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, and custom detection rules to identify credential compromise, crypto-mining, and lateral movement.

## What you need

- 8+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or similar roles.

- Proven track record of building and scaling infrastructure at high-growth technology companies.

- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud-Native Architectures
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems

### Nice to have
- Python
- Go
- AI/ML Infrastructure
- Multi-Cloud Environments