About xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.
Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.
We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.
All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
About the Role
The Cybersecurity / SRE team is focused on ensuring the security and reliability of X Money. This role will primarily focus on the X Money platform but will also cross over with the X Social platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in the banking, money transmission, and P2P payments industry. We emphasize working with large distributed systems and security platforms at scale, with an automation-first mindset.
You’ll be responsible for securing and maintaining the reliability of X Money’s infrastructure. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance security measures, improve system resilience, and implement best practices. Your role will include:
Responsibilities
- Build and secure mission-critical applications in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Manage identities and roles effectively.
- Monitor and remediate infrastructure to comply with regulations and best practices (e.g., PCI, NIST CSF).
Minimum qualifications:
- Proven experience securing hybrid AWS/on-premises environments, including IAM and overall security posture.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Terraform, and Puppet.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container security.
- Hands-on expertise building GitHub Actions and workflows.
- Extensive experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Karma.
- Well versed in management and integrations of Wazuh
- Hands-on experience with security scanning tools (Semgrep, Trivy, Falco).
Annual Salary Range
Benefits
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer.
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