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Founding Security Engineer

Porter
York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2026
Porter is the cloud platform for modern tech companies.

We provide the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost, allowing the next generation of builders to run anything, anywhere.

Traditional engineering orgs have to allocate time and money to managing AWS, Azure, and GCP, and quickly become locked in. We enable top engineering teams to instantly create production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their application code, and easily monitor and manage it, unlocking them to focus on what they do best – building a great product.

We are a company that cares about building something beautiful. We are not afraid of tackling the hardest problems. We are looking for people who want to do the best work of their lives while building the future of tech.

The Role

We are looking for our first security engineer to champion both our internal security posture and new security features for our users. Fundamentally, this role is a software engineering role: we are looking for someone who loves thinking about security in and around the cloud and is eager to roll their sleeves up and tackle these problems at every layer of the stack.

You Will

  • Found our Secure Engineering team, comprised of both security-focused engineers and non-security engineers rotating in project-by-project
  • Drive our internal security roadmap and champion security best-practices to the rest of the team
  • Ship security features to our customers

The Kinds Of Experience We Are Looking For

  • Software engineering
    • Proficiency in Go
    • Testing (unit testing, integration testing)
    • System architecture and design
    • Database skills (SQL, etc)
    • Building APIs and associated tooling
    • Infra-as-Code
  • Systems administration / operation
    • Kubernetes
    • Database admin
  • Application security
    • Authn/authz (especially as they apply to APIs)
    • Vulnerability discovery/research - especially common web vulnerability (SQLi, XSS, etc)
    • Secure development practices, particularly teaching/helping others adopt them
  • Cloud/infra security
    • Building/maintaining security logging systems
    • AWS IAM and related tech
    • General cloud security best practices
    • Secret management
    • Network security
    • Container security
What We Offer

  • Top-of-market compensation that grows with the company
  • Medical, vision, dental insurance
  • 401k
  • 6 weeks of PTO, 6 weeks of remote work
  • Free lunch and office snacks

This role is in-person in NYC.

Salary : $200,000 - $300,000

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