Profluent is seeking a Principal Security & Infrastructure Engineer to serve as the primary owner of Profluent’s security posture across scientific systems, lab automation environments, cloud and business infrastructure, endpoints, identity systems, and core operational workflows. The person will be accountable for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the technical controls, security standards, and operating practices that protect Profluent’s systems and data.
Requirements
- Experience operating with broad ownership across infrastructure, security, and compliance in regulated, audit-conscious, or security-sensitive environments
- Experience serving as the most senior or primary security owner in a startup or scaling environment
- Breadth across infrastructure security, corporate security, IAM, endpoint management, logging and monitoring, vulnerability reduction, incident response, vendor risk, and compliance
- Experience implementing or operating against security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or similar
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, SSO, MFA, endpoint management, logging, patching, vulnerability reduction, and system hardening
- Ability to translate compliance and contractual data-handling requirements into concrete technical and operational controls
- Strong documentation skills, with the ability to create policies, procedures, standards, and technical runbooks that others can follow
- Experience preparing organizations for, achieving, or maintaining external compliance certifications or audit readiness
- Experience with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent
- Experience administering Windows environments, preferably including systems used in laboratory, automation, manufacturing, or instrument-connected settings
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision insurance
- Generous PTO policy and commitment to work-life balance
- Professional development opportunities in a cutting-edge field at the intersection of AI and biology
