Platform Security Software Engineer

Join Neo4j, the leading graph database platform, as a Platform Security Software Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing product security, developing cloud-native controls, and acting as a subject matter expert for the Platform and Engineering teams. You will collaborate with other teams to define and implement cloud/K8s native policies and procedures, conduct security assessments, and support the incident detection and response process. This position offers competitive health and financial programs, work-life balance initiatives, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and mentorship.

• Expand tooling and add new guardrails to enhance product security along the software development lifecycle.
• Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS, and/or GCP to enforce the security baseline at scale.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the Platform and Engineering teams by providing guidance on cloud and Kubernetes services.
• Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code and programming languages such as Go, Java and/or Python
• Demonstrated ability to architect cloud-native applications including the design of APIs and microservices on containers
• An active interest and background in Cloud, Infrastructure and/or Network security
• Familiarity with securing and hardening K8s clusters, containerised applications and Linux hosts
• Proven experience in a security engineering role with hands-on technical involvement, and exposure to decision making processes
• Proven track record with cloud-native authentication mechanisms (i.e. OIDC, OAuth2), secrets management, admission controllers, service mesh, mTLS and cloud based IAM solutions
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