Engineering builds the software, infrastructure, and aircraft systems that power Rainmaker’s cloud-seeding operations. We work with scientists and field operators to turn weather data into reliable systems that help make more freshwater available.
About the Role
Rainmaker is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to build security into how we develop software and hardware, and how we run field operations. You’ll write production code and design secure defaults across AWS, our applications, and company systems, protecting scientific data and the systems our aircraft and field teams depend on. You’ll automate routine controls and checks, reducing recurring manual work as the company grows. You’ll work closely with engineers to test, operate, and improve the systems you build while keeping secure workflows straightforward to use.
What You’ll Do
Map critical systems, data flows, and access paths, then turn the highest-priority risks into a practical plan.
Build reusable, secure-by-default AWS infrastructure with platform engineers, including least-privilege access, network boundaries, and logging for scientific and operational systems.
Review application designs and code, build reusable authentication and authorization patterns, and fix vulnerabilities at their source.
Automate access provisioning and revocation, secrets management, and credential rotation across production and company systems, with clear audit trails and recovery paths.
Build security checks into development and deployment workflows to catch exposed secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and unsafe configuration changes before release.
Build useful detections and automate evidence gathering for investigations. Work with system owners to test incident response and recovery.
Make Google Workspace and device configurations secure by default, working with People and Operations to make onboarding and offboarding reliable and easy to use.
Partner with aircraft and field teams on secure remote access and communications for systems that operate with intermittent connectivity.
Test, monitor, and document security automation so other engineers can maintain it. Simplify controls that create unnecessary alerts, exceptions, or recurring manual work.
What We’re Looking For
Experience building and maintaining security automation in production. You can show what risk it reduced, how you tested it, how failures are handled, and what manual work it eliminated.
Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, or a similar language, including testing, code review, deployment, and operating what you build.
Hands-on cloud security experience, with the ability to turn access policies, network boundaries, and logging requirements into reusable infrastructure as code.
Practical understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and common web and API vulnerabilities.
Experience investigating security findings and carrying fixes through to deployment and verification.
Sound judgment about risk, reliability, and maintenance costs. You can choose a simple, effective control and explain what should happen now versus later.
Ability to work independently, communicate clearly with engineers and non-engineers, and follow through on work that spans teams.
What Will Set You Apart
Experience with AWS, Pulumi or Terraform, and GitHub or Buildkite deployment workflows.
Experience with Tailscale or WireGuard
Security work involving robotics, aerospace, scientific computing, or remote field systems.
Experience building self-service security tools or reusable controls that other engineering teams adopted.
What Success Looks Like In the First 90 Days
You’ve mapped our critical systems and access paths and agreed on the highest-priority risks with the team. A secure configuration or access control is deployed on a critical system, with tests that catch unsafe changes. One recurring security workflow now runs automatically, with monitoring, a tested recovery path, and documentation so it can operate without your daily intervention. You’ve tested a detection and response path with the engineers who will use it and agreed on the next improvements.
Supporting the Rainmakers behind the mission
Making earth more habitable is ambitious work and we want the people doing it to feel supported:
A stake in what we build: Meaningful stock options and the opportunity to help shape Rainmaker as an early member of the team.
Support for your health: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
An investment in your future: A 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term savings.
Time to recharge: Unlimited PTO for rest, exploration, and the people and pursuits that matter to you plus a generous paid holiday schedule.
Time for a growing family: Paid parental leave for both parents to welcome a child and spend time together.
Lunch together: Daily lunch provided at our El Segundo headquarters, giving Rainmakers a chance to share a meal and connect with teammates.
Help making the move: Relocation assistance for eligible roles to support your transition to Rainmaker.
Rainmaker Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
Employment decisions are made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Rainmaker provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and for other protected reasons as required by law. If you need accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, contact hiring@makerain.com. Requests for accommodation will be handled confidentially to the extent reasonably possible.
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