Staff Security Engineer, Product & Platform Security
AI summary of the role
Staff-level security engineer leading product and platform security for Nscale's GPU cloud and AI infrastructure.
What you’ll do
- Perform vulnerability assessments, application security reviews, and testing of core services including Identity, billing, external APIs, and the Nscale Console.
- Conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews for new products, features, services, and platform changes.
- Coordinate with engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to reproduce, validate, and remediate vulnerability findings.
- Support incident classification, escalation, and responsible disclosure workflows for production security issues.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years in information security with hands-on product/application/platform security or vulnerability management experience.
- Deep expertise in threat modeling, security architecture, vulnerability assessment, and secure coding.
- Experience partnering with software, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of CVSS scoring, vulnerability prioritization, and risk quantification.
Technologies
GPU · HPC · AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · container security · API security · IAM · CVSS · threat modeling · penetration testing
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Product and Platform Security to lead security initiatives across Nscale’s products, cloud platforms, hyperscale GPU clusters, and critical infrastructure. You’ll partner closely with engineering, platform, infrastructure, and security teams to identify and reduce risk throughout the product and technology lifecycle. You’ll provide hands-on security expertise across architecture and design reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, secure development, and incident response. This role will help build and scale product and platform security practices while turning technical findings, researcher insights, and emerging threats into stronger engineering controls, clearer priorities, and measurable improvements to Nscale’s security posture. What you'll be doing Product and Platform Security Perform vulnerability assessments, application security reviews, and testing of Nscale’s
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About Nscale Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future. About the Role We are seeking a Staff Security Engineer, Product and Platform Security to lead security initiatives across Nscale’s products, cloud platforms, hyperscale GPU clusters, and critical infrastructure. You’ll partner closely with engineering, platform, infrastructure, and security teams to identify and reduce risk throughout the product and technology lifecycle. You’ll provide hands-on security expertise across architecture and design reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, secure development, and incident response. This role w [... source excerpt omitted ...] chnical findings, researcher insights, and emerging threats into stronger engineering controls, clearer priorities, and measurable improvements to Nscale’s security posture. What you'll be doing Product and Platform Security Perform vulnerability assessments, application security reviews, and testing of Nscale’s core services, including the Identity service, billing service, external APIs, and the Nscale Console. Conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews for new products, features, services, and platform changes. Provide guidance on secure design, coding practices, authentication, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure security. Develop reusable securit [... source excerpt omitted ...] nd technical debt. Security Coordination and Incident Response Support incident classification and escalation workflows when vulnerabilities or security issues are discovered in production environments. Coordinate responsible disclosure timelines and remediation activities with affected stakeholders. Contribute to root-cause analysis and process improvements following vulnerability discovery or security incidents. Document findings, remediation steps, and lessons learned to improve product and platform security practices. Maintain detailed records of findings and resolutions for audit and compliance purposes. Program Measurement and Improvement Track and report on product a
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