Staff Cloud Security Engineer

Our Mission  

SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡

SPAN is mission-driven to design, build, and deploy products that electrify our built environment, decarbonize our world, and slow the effects of climate change.

• Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.

• Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

At SPAN, we believe in:

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy

• Making electrification upgrades possible

• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup

• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

The Role
We are looking for a hands-on individual with a security engineering mindset to join us as Cloud Security Engineer as part of the Security team at SPAN. You will be responsible for building out SPAN’s security program and architecting, developing and deploying security tools and technologies to protect SPAN's platform and backend infrastructure. You will get exposure and contribute to the broader systems and cloud infrastructure initiatives here at SPAN as well.

Responsibilities include:

• Build robust Identity and Access Management posture

• Ensure that our production platform in AWS has been hardened as per industry standards

• Deploy and own Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) solution at SPAN

• Own the vulnerability assessment and patch triage process to support ongoing vulnerability and patch management at SPAN and provide recommendations for identified vulnerabilities

• Participate in the evaluation and selection of security tools and technologies
  

About you

• 8+ years in a security engineering or operations role

• Experience with some of the authentication and authorization technologies such as OIDC, SAML, OAuth and AuthZ

• Hands on experience with AWS Infrastructure Security

• Kubernetes (AWS EKS) and container infrastructure 

• IAM and managing cloud identities at-scale 

• Secure development and application of IAC solutions (Terraform, Pulumi) 

• Cloud-native observability and management tools 

• Development experience in one of the languages: Python, Kotlin, Node or Rust

• Understanding of web vulnerabilities is a plus
  

Life at SPAN

Headquartered in San Francisco’s vibrant SoMa neighborhood, we are an eclectic group of creative thinkers who value open communication, teamwork, and a ‘make it happen’ approach to addressing complex challenges. 

SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 

We’re hiring talented individuals who are driven by success and are passionate about shaping the future of renewable energy. If that sounds like you, we’d love for you to consider joining the rapidly growing team at SPAN.

The Perks:

⚡ Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company

⚡ Comprehensive benefits: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage.  Parental leave up to six (6) months depending on eligibility

⚡ Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit

⚡ Strong focus on team building and company culture: Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch and learns

⚡ Flexible hours, one holiday per month and unlimited PTO

Interested in joining our team? Submit an application today and we’ll be in touch with next steps!