Cloud Security Engineer

About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

As the first Cloud Security Engineer at Base, you will establish and lead our cloud-security posture from the ground up. You’re not just a compliance checker, you proactively build, harden, and scale secure cloud infrastructure and backend services that support our energy-at-scale mission. Your work will ensure that as we grow rapidly, our services remain secure, resilient, and compliant with best practices. You’ll collaborate across backend, infrastructure, and hardware teams to embed security deeply into our platform while writing production-grade backend code and designing systems that can stand up to real threats in both cloud and distributed-system contexts.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and backend systems for production workloads

• Implement identity, authentication, and authorization frameworks for cloud services (e.g., IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access)

• Manage secrets, credentials, keys, and certificate lifecycle across cloud services and tooling securely and reliably

• Define and enforce security architecture standards, policies, and best practices for cloud systems

• Build observability, monitoring, alerting, and detection systems to surface security anomalies or misconfigurations early

• Conduct threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and regular audits of cloud, network, and service-level security

• Lead incident response for cloud-based security events; root-cause analysis, remediation, and post-mortem processes

• Collaborate with backend engineering, DevOps/infrastructure, and hardware teams to ensure holistic security coverage as we scale

• Drive secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code practices, and compliance automation (e.g., drift detection, policy-as-code)

• Document cloud-security architecture, decisions, and standard operating procedures; maintain clear risk assessments

What You'll Bring

• Several years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience with strong cloud-native background (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Proven expertise in cloud security best practices: IAM, secret management, encryption (in-transit and at-rest), certificate & key management, network security (VPC, subnets, firewalls), etc.

• Deep understanding of secure infrastructure design, threat modeling, attack surface minimization, and defense-in-depth strategies

• Comfortable writing production-quality backend code (e.g., Python, Go, or similar). This role is hands-on engineering, not just policy

• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment systems

• Familiarity with monitoring/logging frameworks and security observability tools (e.g., Cloud-native logging, SIEM, detection/alerting tooling)

• Ability to own end-to-end security for systems from design through production deployment and ongoing operations

• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills; ability to influence design and operating practices across a growing org

• Proactive, self-driven mindset: ideal for someone comfortable building security from 0 → 1 in a fast-paced environment

Who We Are

Base is a company for people who want to win and who want their work to matter. We think from first principles, move with urgency, and treat the mission like our own.

We talk about what isn’t working before we talk about what is because every problem is an opportunity to fix something, improve the system, and compound progress. We cut through complexity, stay close to the work, and let results speak for themselves.

Our Values

• First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

• Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

• Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

• Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

• Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.