Overview
We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. Weโve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.
At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!
Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.
LocalStack has a large and active developer community with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.
We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors.
LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria ๐ฆ๐น and remote team members from ๐บ๐ธthe US, ๐ซ๐ทFR, ๐ฌ๐งUK, ๐จ๐ฆCA, ๐ช๐ธES, and many more countries.
This is the right opportunity for a person with 7+ years in a security engineering or security compliance role, experience leading vendor risk assessments and building compliance frameworks from the ground up, a strong background in API design and build, as well as a strong background in DevSecOps, incident response, and pragmatic, risk-driven security leadership.
Requirements
โ What you will be working on/responsible for
- Ensure robust security posture of our product, across the various components (in particular, the LocalStack emulators, the LocalStack Cloud platform, as well as our data warehouse).
- Lead initiatives for incident monitoring, intrusion detection, and vulnerability management.
- Define and implement regular security auditing procedures across systems and access controls.
- Deliver a sustainable, scalable process for vendor risk assessments and other security-related initiatives (e.g., via tooling, delegation, or automation) including completing and submitting vendor risk assessments to support our sales process.
- Ensure secure configurations and permission models, while collaborating with the engineering teams.
- Identify gaps between claimed and actual compliance and propose/lead corrective actions.
- Own documentation of security controls, configurations, and policies.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to evaluate different security threats and attack vectors.
- Generate and distribute internal audit and compliance reports in regular intervals.
โ Experience we expect you to bring to the role
- Expert knowledge of threat modelling, vulnerability management, and tools like intrusion detection, network security, or Linux/Unix OS hardening.
- Practical experience with cloud security (AWS preferred).
- Good knowledge of common standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), even if not formally certified.
- Strong documentation skills and ability to make complex topics accessible to non-experts.
- Good understanding of US and EU security and compliance expectations.
- Prior engineering experience strongly preferred (even if no longer coding daily).
- Proactive, pragmatic, and capable of risk-based decision-making.
Benefits
- Fully remote
- Competitive salary
- Annual company retreat
- 2 extra company-wide holidays
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture (community guilds and online company events)
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