# Porter - Founding Security Engineer at deCircle

> Onsite · United States · Unspecified · Security · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/recruitee%3Adecircletalentpartner%3A2780653 (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [deCircle](https://alderhq.app/companies/decircle)
- Location text: New York, New York, United States
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: New York, New York, United States")
- Posted: 2026-10-12 (26 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://talent.makerdao.network/o/porter-founding-security-engineer
- Skills listed (inferred): Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, SQL

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 46): p25 $148k, median $210k, p75 $257k

## Description (the employer's text)

Porter (porter.run): PaaS running in customers' own clouds. 24 people, $21.5M raised, NYC.

Comp: $220K-$320K + competitive equity. Location: 5 days in-office NYC; 30 days PTO + 30 days remote/yr; relocation support. Visa: Visa transfers (OPT/H1B) and new sponsorships (H1B, TN); new H1B only for exceptional candidates.

### Responsibilities

Found the Secure Engineering function; drive internal security roadmap across ~20-person eng org

Build and ship customer-facing security products

Write production Go to harden multi-cloud infra (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes in hundreds of customer accounts

Own cloud/container security end-to-end: IAM, network security, secrets, workload isolation, security logging

Engage directly with customers' security engineers

Tech stack: Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Docker, SQL, IAM

Source: https://www.paraform.com/share/porter.run/cmubvvpl2006u0ckwwu4pugmn

### Requirements

4+ yrs infrastructure/platform engineering; software engineer first

Cloud + Kubernetes security depth (IAM, network, secrets, isolation)

Go; AWS/GCP/Azure; Terraform

On-site NYC 5 days

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