Engineering Tech Lead (Product Security)

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Engineering Tech Lead (Product Security) in Canada

vCluster Labs
Full time
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Canada
10/21/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Conduct penetration testing of products and infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes and container isolation.
Own vulnerability response from triage and prioritization through remediation, coordinated disclosure, and patched releases.
Threat-model new features and review security-sensitive designs for production systems.
Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.
Improve secure defaults and security practices across the engineering organization.

Requirements

Hands-on experience finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in production systems, with deep Kubernetes expertise.
Knowledge of Kubernetes attack surfaces, including container breakout, privilege escalation, RBAC, and policy best practices.
Working knowledge of Kubernetes internals, including the API server, admission control, controllers, and kubelet.
Experience building controllers or operators with controller-runtime, Kubebuilder, or client-go is preferred.
Experience threat modeling and reviewing production-system designs.
Experience investigating and fixing vulnerabilities, including the CVE lifecycle, coordinated disclosure, and patch releases.
Experience building and shipping production systems with Go as the primary language.
CKS certification and early-stage startup experience are bonus qualifications.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package including equity.
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees and eligible dependents, with benefits varying by country.
Flexible working schedule.
Remote-first workplace flexibility with a distributed global team.

Salary: $150k - $200k/yr

vCluster Labs

vCluster Labs builds open-source and commercial tools that simplify Kubernetes multi-tenancy and platform operations for platform engineering and SRE teams. Its products include vCluster (virtual clusters for tenant isolation), DevPod, JsPolicy, and an Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI with ...

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