Staff Security Engineer
Build and mature PKI and cryptography infrastructure for a global ecommerce retailer, including certificate lifecycle, CA operations, and security architecture reviews.
- Compensation
- $130K–$169K / yr
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience designing Cloud Security Posture Management, K8s security architecture from scratch for multi-region deployments.
- Open-source maintainer, committer, or significant contributor to cloud-native security projects (CNCF ecosystem preferred).
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline security integration: container image scanning, image signing, SBOM generation, and supply chain verification.
- Palo Alto Cortex XDR or equivalent experience.
- Experience deploying containerized security sensors, NTA, or NDR in production K8s - running security tooling IN containers, not just securing containers.
- Experience with CNAPP platforms (Wiz, Lacework, Orca) - understanding cloud posture tooling in practice.
- AI/ML workload security considerations (model serving infrastructure, GPU cluster hardening).
- CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist) or equivalent certification.
Full description
About SHEIN
SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, offering SHEIN branded apparel and products from a global network of vendors, all at affordable prices. Headquartered in Singapore, with more than 15,000 employees operating from offices around the world, SHEIN is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on-demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry.
Position Summary
We're hiring a Staff Security Engineer to own and mature Cloud Security runtime protection across our container and Kubernetes environments across our global, multi-cloud footprint. This is an engineering role for someone with deep, practical experience in cloud-native security infrastructure, plus hands-on familiarity with deploying and operating security tooling in containerized environments. You'll work closely with infrastructure, platform, and security teams across regions to design and implement controls that are effective, durable, and usable in production. We're looking for someone who can go beyond configuration and checklists: a hands-on engineer who can architect systems, automate processes, troubleshoot failures, and make strong design decisions in complex multi-cloud environments.
We operate at meaningful scale: customers in 150+ countries, footprint across multi-cloud providers, and engineering teams shipping continuously. We've already made significant investments in our security foundations and are now focused on the next stage of maturity for Cloud container and workload security. In this role, your primary focus will be cloud security posture, container and Kubernetes security: runtime threat detection, admission control, image integrity, secrets management, and the policy-as-code frameworks needed to run these systems well at scale.
You'll also drive cross-border cloud security alignment, partnering with global-based infrastructure teams on shared architecture decisions across the multi-cloud tenants. This is a greenfield engineering role - you'll be the cloud security engineer on the global team. This is a strong fit for someone who wants to combine hands-on engineering, practical architecture judgment, and cross-functional influence in a role with real scope and ownership.
Job Responsibilities
-
Own and mature cloud security posture, container and Kubernetes security across our global cloud environments.
-
Define and improve standards, guardrails, and reference patterns for CSPM, container image security, runtime integrity enforcement, and admission control.
-
Tune and operate policy-as-code frameworks (Kyverno, OPA/Rego) to enforce security baselines across K8s clusters at scale.
-
Deploy and manage containerized security tooling - NTA sensors, NDR, and runtime threat detection - across global data centers.