Software Engineer - Information Security

Job description

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgreSQL and Vitess clusters and will soon offer sharded PostgreSQL clusters with Neki. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer: Information Security to join our team and help us build security into every layer of our infrastructure while maintaining our exceptional developer experience. What's the job to be done? - You will design and implement security controls for PlanetScale's cloud-native database platform, protecting millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with engineering teams to conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and provide secure coding guidance across our distributed systems. - A special focus for this role is on proactive red teaming and testing - you will consistently try to break into the PlanetScale platform as an attacker would, and help patch what you find - You will evaluate, procure, and implement proactive security tools and technologies to strengthen our security postu...