Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer

As a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at LiveKit, your main responsibilities will include owning the infrastructure security domain from start to finish, enhancing our Terraform configurations, automating system image creation in CI/CD pipelines, and prioritizing security tasks. You'll collaborate with the engineering team to maintain secure design patterns and stay updated on emerging security threats, ensuring the resilience and security of LiveKit's infrastructure.

To qualify as a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at LiveKit, you should have extensive experience in security engineering at infrastructure-heavy organizations, with proficiency in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. A deep understanding of low-level systems, the ability to audit systems effectively, and experience in implementing and enforcing security best practices are crucial. If you have contributed to open-source security tools or developed hardened images, that's a significant bonus.

LiveKit approaches infrastructure security by prioritizing collaboration among engineering teams to ensure secure-by-default design and workflows. The Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer will play an essential role in implementing best practices for hardening systems, enforcing authentication, and maintaining security protocols across infrastructure, creating a culture of shared responsibility for security.

A Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at LiveKit should be well-versed in Terraform, CI/CD tools, and various cloud-native technologies. Familiarity with security tooling, vulnerability management, and incident response processes can also significantly enhance your ability to succeed in this role. Having hands-on experience with open-source security tools is highly regarded.

To thrive as a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at LiveKit, you need to be an engineer passionate about building and securing systems. Success in this role requires strong problem-solving skills, hands-on experience leading security engineering initiatives, and a commitment to documentation and advocacy of security practices. An inquisitive mind eager to find out how things work at their core is essential.

In responding to this question, highlight specific projects where you've implemented Terraform to enhance security measures. Discuss how you've used it to manage configurations, automate deployments, and ensure compliance across environments.

Talk about your approach to risk assessment and how you balance immediate security threats with longer-term structural improvements. Giving examples of tools or frameworks you use to assess and prioritize vulnerabilities can be particularly compelling.

Discuss specific vulnerabilities such as exposed secrets, insecure dependencies, or lack of access controls. Elaborate on strategies you've employed to mitigate these risks, like integrating security testing into pipelines or employing automated quality checks.

Use this opportunity to show your problem-solving skills. Describe the incident, your role in managing the response, the strategies you employed, and the lessons learned. Insight into your leadership during high-pressure situations can set you apart.

Mention resources such as security blogs, forums, conferences, and online courses you follow. Discuss how you implement lessons learned and newfound knowledge into your practices or team trainings.

Explain your structured approach to incident response, emphasizing communication and documentation. Discuss how you conduct postmortems to identify root causes and implement actionable improvements to avoid future incidents.

Discuss your methodology for conducting security audits, reviewing configurations, and assessing compliance with best practices. Explain how you prioritize findings and communicate them to stakeholders.

Automation is crucial in managing repetitive security tasks. Share examples of how you've automated security testing, compliance checks, or incident response processes, highlighting the efficiency gained.

Discuss your strategies for enforcing best practices, including training, fostering a culture of security awareness, and using automated compliance tools. Offer examples of how you hold your team accountable while encouraging open discussions about security.

If applicable, share any projects or tools you've contributed to or created. Highlight the impact of these contributions and how they relate to your skills and experiences in security engineering.