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Lead Infrastructure Engineer/SRE

Corelight.com

Hybrid

Remote

Full Time

Do you want to help make the world safe from cyber attack? 

At Corelight, we believe that the best approach to cybersecurity risk starts with the network.  Attackers can evade endpoint detection, firewalls and many other technologies - but they can’t avoid leaving digital footprints on the networks they traverse.  Built on open-source innovations from Zeek, Suricata and YARA and refined through years of real-world use,  Corelight transforms network footprints from physical, virtual and cloud networks into actionable insights.   Our customers use these insights to speed incident response and proactively hunt for threats.As the Technical Lead - SRE  you will collaborate with development and quality engineering to build and maintain our continuous integration pipeline from development to production. You’ll bring a strong systems background and an eye toward automated software engineering and continuous delivery. Your deep understanding of SaaS and cloud technologies, combined with your leadership skills, will be vital in shaping the future of Corelight's Open NDR SaaS Platform.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Engage in overall software architecture from design to implementation, to monitoring, and to testing. This includes conducting ongoing analysis of our architecture and designs, CI/CD practices, implementing automated test suites, monitoring tools, and alerting mechanics.

  • Drive Corelight SaaS Cloud architecture, working closely with Engineering, Product, and other technical leaders
  • Drive SaaS Operations improvements including Cost, Monitoring, Security, Change Management controls,  etc.
  • Design, develop and maintain robust and scalable Machine Learning pipelines Infrastructure.
  • Implement automation, disaster recovery, and system resilience best practices.
  • Work in an Agile development team to design and deliver service features end-to-end from design to production deployment and monitoring.
  • Engage in hands-on, in-depth analysis, review, and design of the Cloud Infrastructure,  high availability, resilience, and meeting stringent SLO objectives.
  • Work closely with offshore teams on various development projects.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of Enterprise Distributed System Architecture, Public Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, and Infrastructure as a Code.
  • Experience programming skills in Python or Golang, Infrastructure such as code (Terraform, Pulumi) and Ansible
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic Search, Docker, and Containers
  • Experience with CI/CD practices, pipelines, monitoring and alerting tools, and automated test suite frameworks such as Gitlab, cloud devops tools, etc
  • Experience with current SRE/DevOps best practices.
  • Experience in architecting, building, and scaling platforms and distributed systems that require high availability, resilience, and meeting stringent SLO objectives is required.
  • Knowledgeable in distributed systems and redundancy / high-availability and performance optimizations
  • Experience in designing and implementing infrastructure for machine learning pipelines using Apache Spark or Apache Flink.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and big data technologies.
  • Familiarity with AWS, particularly Lambda, APIGW, MSK, EMR, AppSync,EKS, MLOps

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in optimizing and troubleshooting complex, managing/deploying large-scale cloud infrastructure
  • Experience in backup strategies and Disaster Recovery
  • Knowledge of Network-based Security Detections and Attack techniques desirable.
  • Experience with Search and Analytics tools like Splunk, Elasticsearch etc. 
  • Experience working in a distributed team.
  • Good to have compliance requirements of FedRAMP, GDPR, SOC2, etc.
  • Familiar with security and risk mitigation (authentication, encryption, anomaly detection) for a cloud-based environment
Fueled by investments from top-tier venture capital organizations such as Crowdstrike, Accel and Insight, Corelight is the fastest growing network detection and response platform in the industry.  Our customers trust us to protect mission-critical assets in leading enterprises, government, and research institutions worldwide.   We are leading the way with AI-assisted workflows, machine learning models, cloud security and SaaS-based solutions to arm defenders with the tools and knowledge they need to disrupt cyber attacks.    Our team of passionate innovators are dedicated to solving some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture. Corelight is committed to a geographically distributed yet connected employee base with employees working from home and office locations around the world.   At Corelight, we are proud of our diversity of background and thought, and we’re united by our strong shared culture and values.

We are looking forward to meeting you.  Check us out at www.corelight.com

Notice of Pay Transparency:
The compensation for this position may vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. Depending on the nature and seniority of the role, a percentage of compensation may come in the form of a commission-based or discretionary bonus. Equity and additional benefits will also be awarded.

Compensation Range$184,000$229,000 USD

Lead Infrastructure Engineer/SRE

Hybrid

Remote

Full Time

September 24, 2025

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Corelight

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