Lead Product Security Engineer

Aalyria is a leading technology company that supplies laser communications technology and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms to the aerospace industry. The Lead Product Security Engineer will be responsible for overseeing product security, including application security, CI/CD security, and vulnerability management, while collaborating closely with hardware engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Application & software security. SAST/DAST/SCA, secure SDLC, threat modeling, and software vulnerability management across our codebase
• CI/CD and supply-chain security. Hardening our GitLab pipelines, build provenance, dependency integrity, signing, and SLSA-aligned controls
• Product infrastructure security. GKE and Kubernetes hardening, container security, workload identity, network policy, and runtime protection
• Product PKI. Certificate lifecycle, issuance, rotation, and mTLS architecture across distributed services and remote assets
• Vulnerability management. Triage, prioritization, remediation tracking, and exception handling, for both disclosed upstream issues and internal findings
• Product incident response. Leading triage and response for product-side security incidents, coordinating with corporate IR, and driving post-mortems to action
• Product infra hardening. Baseline configurations, secure defaults, and compensating controls across product environments
• Hardware security partnership. Working with the Tightbeam team on firmware security, secure boot, key storage, and hardware supply-chain integrity

Requirements:

• Senior- or staff-level hands-on experience in product security or security engineering, with significant depth in software/AppSec
• Production experience securing cloud environments such as IAM, org policy, VPC Service Controls, KMS, and Kubernetes at depth
• Strong cryptographic foundations, PKI architecture, key management, signing, mTLS, and secrets handling at scale
• Hands-on coding ability in Python, Bash, and Go, you can write tooling, automate controls, and ship Terraform/scripts when the situation calls for it. Comfort reviewing code is a plus
• A track record of building security programs, not just operating tools someone else stood up
• Experience leading product incident response, triage, response, coordination with engineering teams, customer comms, and post-mortem ownership
• A pattern of mentoring engineers and raising the security bar of teams around you, even without direct reports
• Experience interfacing with hardware/firmware teams, even if hardware isn't your primary domain
• Strong written communication, you'll write threat models, design docs, and program updates that go to the executives, customers, and assessors
• Working knowledge of the compliance frameworks that govern our environment such as CMMC, FedRAMP, and DFARS along with the ability to translate controls into engineering work
• Hands on experience with NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, or DoD SRG environments
• Experience with government-cloud platforms
• Hardware security depth in HSMs, TPMs, secure elements, supply-chain attestation
• Embedded / firmware security background, secure boot, RoT, OTA update integrity, hands-on firmware review
• Experience standing up or running a vulnerability disclosure program or bug bounty, triage, researcher comms, and CVE coordination