Staff Security Engineer (Top Secret Clearance Required)

4 hours, 5 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Cybersecurity
Orbis

Orbis

Orbis specializes in providing comprehensive analysis and insights into the digital domain through its Digital Landscape Discovery service, which systematically collects, processes, and interprets digital information to support national security initia...

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 2008

Description

  • Define authentication and authorization architecture, including OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, RBAC, and ABAC patterns.
  • Set reliability and security strategy for the trust layer, including SLOs/SLAs, safe credential revocation, and access-control incident response.
  • Participate in on-call operations, incident triage and mitigation, and post-incident reviews for the data platform.
  • Build secure-by-default developer patterns, credential lifecycle automation, and hardened mTLS service-to-service communication.
  • Own security-layer QA strategy, threat modeling, adversarial testing, and deployment quality gates such as SCA, SAST, and container scanning.
  • Implement and review session, token, and authentication systems for security, testability, and operational readiness.
  • Architect encryption at rest and in transit, key hierarchies, and HSM/KMS integrations.
  • Partner with security and IT teams on identity, networking, observability, service mesh configuration, and industry-standard compliance.
  • Lead vulnerability discovery efforts, including penetration tests, red-team exercises, and security assessments.
  • Mentor senior engineers and establish security standards, documentation, and technical direction.

Requirements

  • Active Top Secret security clearance.
  • 7+ years of experience shaping platform-wide or infrastructure security architecture.
  • Ability to travel internationally to the Middle East and geopolitical hot zones up to 25% per calendar year.
  • Hands-on experience with mTLS/TLS trust systems, certificate issuance, x.509 validation, CA bundle management, and key rotation.
  • Experience building authorization engines and policy models, including interfaces used by other engineers.
  • Strong knowledge of JWTs, token issuance and verification, credential grants, session semantics, and revocation in federated or multi-tenant environments.
  • Fluency in Go and protobuf/gRPC service design, including securing gRPC and service-mesh communications.
  • Threat-modeling experience across host and plugin boundaries, enrollment flows, and tenant-isolation risks.
  • Ability to communicate security trade-offs and align customers, product leaders, and engineering teams.
  • Experience with secure multi-tenant APIs, Cedar or OPA, secure node enrollment flows, or national security, intelligence, or defense environments (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive retirement matching.
  • PTO policy that encourages meaningful time off.
  • Comprehensive benefits package for employees and their families.
  • Work arrangements may include customer-site, office-based, hybrid, or fully remote work depending on mission needs.
  • Tools and access provided to support work across locations.

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