# Site Reliability Engineer - Cybersecurity

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4803447007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ae849446-fe5

## Description

## About the Role

The Cybersecurity / SRE team at xAI is focused on ensuring the security and reliability of X Money. This role will primarily focus on the X Money platform but will also cross over with the X Social platform.

You'll be responsible for securing and maintaining the reliability of X Money's infrastructure. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance security measures, improve system resilience, and implement best practices.

## Responsibilities

- Build and secure mission-critical applications in a hybrid cloud environment.

- Manage identities and roles effectively.

- Monitor and remediate infrastructure to comply with regulations and best practices (e.g., PCI, NIST CSF).

- Maintain a SIEM and all data pipelines needed for reliable alerting.

- Design and implement secure container standards and automation to enable frictionless developer workflows.

- Maintain Kubernetes security aligned with current best practices.

- Build, deploy, and maintain security operations infrastructure using Python, Terraform, and Puppet.

- Secure and enhance CI/CD pipelines.

- Integrate and maintain code scanning platforms.

- Develop dashboards and alerts from security metrics.

- Own security projects: identify issues and implement solutions.

- Apply critical analysis and problem-solving skills.

## Basic Qualifications

- Proven experience securing hybrid AWS/on-premises environments, including IAM and overall security posture.

- Strong proficiency in Python, Terraform, and Puppet.

- Certifications like CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, Security+, CASP+, or similar preferred.

- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container security.

- Hands-on expertise building GitHub Actions and workflows.

- Extensive experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Karma.

- Well versed in management and integrations of Wazuh

- Hands-on experience with security scanning tools (Semgrep, Trivy, Falco).

- Proactive mindset with strong ownership and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent critical thinking and analytical abilities.

## Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Kubernetes
- container security
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Karma
- Wazuh
- security scanning tools
- critical analysis
- problem-solving skills