Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Senior)
Menlo Park, CA, United States
About us Character’s mission is to empower everyone with AGI. Our vision is to enable people with our technology so that they can use Character.AI any moment of any day.
Character.AI is one of the world’s leading personal AI platforms. Founded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, Character.AI is a full-stack AI company with a globally scaled direct-to-consumer platform. As of 2023 that platform was #2 in the space in user engagement. Character.AI is uniquely centered around people, letting users personalize their experience by interacting with AI “Characters.” The company achieved unicorn status in 2023 and was named Google Play’s AI App of the Year.
Noam co-invented the key tech powering LLMs and was recently named to TIME100’s Most Influential People in AI list. TIME called him “one of the most important and impactful people of the space’s past, present, and future.” Daniel created and led LaMDA, the breakthrough conversational tech project currently powering Bard.
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About the Role
Responsibilities:
As a founding member of our Infrastructure Security team, you will be responsible for leading broad-scope initiatives to harden our infrastructure against sophisticated threat actors. Design and implement the core infrastructure that supports our applications, services, and large language model training and inference pipelines at scale. Our infrastructure is home to some of the most valuable intellectual property in the world - including some of the largest language models to be found anywhere - and it will be your responsibility to ensure our systems operate reliably and securely in the presence of malicious adversaries.
Job responsibilities may include:
Envisioning, designing, and implementing hardened infrastructure
Ensuring our Kubernetes clusters are configured to prevent unauthorized access
Hardening our cloud compute environments
Designing workflows and developing tooling that enables developers to securely utilize our infrastructure while maintaining velocity
Implement secure build artifact handling and deployment flows
Integrate CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure to automate and secure deployments
Requirements:
Competitive candidates will have:
At least 5 years of experience with infrastructure security and/or software engineering
Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker
Familiarity with cloud environments such as GCP or AWS
Ability to understand and contribute code to complex codebases
Familiarity with various SSH key management approaches
Deep understanding of service mesh technologies such as Istio, linkerd, or GCP Anthos
Understanding of common CI/CD-based workflows
Proficiency in Linux-based server environments with a high degree of comfort on the Linux CLI
Experience architecting secure system designs to meet product requirements at scale
Familiarity with zero trust concepts
A demonstrated ability to work autonomously to identify and resolve problems independently
Outstanding candidates will have one or more of the following:
Experience with common web application and web service design patterns
Familiarity with Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments
Previous experience in a technology startup
You will be a good fit if you are proactive and have a “get things done” mindset. Given our current pace of growth and load on our systems, most people have had a significant impact during their first week at the company.
Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.
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