Principal Cloud Security Engineer

☁️ Principal Cloud Security Engineer | Remote | USA & Canada Pax8 is hiring a Principal Cloud Security Engineer across the USA and Canada to shape and secure the future of our cloud marketplace, protecting the infrastructure powering millions of platform interactions through modern cloud, platform, and AI-enabled security practices. 🚀 Build the Security Foundations of the Future This is a rare opportunity to become the technical authority for cloud security within Pax8's Platform Security function. You'll influence how security is designed, implemented, and governed across a rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem while partnering directly with engineering leaders responsible for some of the most critical technology in our business. As technology, automation, and AI continue transforming the cloud marketplace, you'll help define the standards that allow innovation to happen safely at scale. You'll have the autonomy to set direction, solve complex security challenges, and create patterns that engineering teams can adopt globally. 🌍 Join a Company Changing the Cloud Marketplace At Pax8, we're building the technology marketplace of the future through cloud innovation, AI-powered insights, and a thriving global partner ecosystem. Today we support more than 39,000 partners, work with 130+ vendors, and help hundreds of thousands of businesses embrace modern technology. Learn more about our journey through our US About page and US Newsroom, where you'll see how we're continuing to innovate, grow and invest in the future of technology. 🔐 What You'll Be Doing ☁️ Establish Secure-by-Design Cloud Standards Create and evolve security baselines for cloud infrastructure, container platforms, platform tooling, and third-party services, ensuring security controls remain effective as our technology landscape grows. 🛡️ Strengthen Identity & Access Controls Define modern least-privilege approaches across cloud identities, service accounts, platform access models, and containerized workloads, reducing risk while enabling engineering productivity. ⚙️ Secure the Software Delivery Lifecycle Lead security governance across build and deployment platforms, helping engineering teams implement resilient controls that protect code, pipelines, secrets, and software supply chains. 🌐 Validate Security Architecture at Scale Evaluate network segmentation strategies, cloud connectivity patterns, workload isolation approaches, and platform architecture decisions to reduce attack surface and limit blast radius. 📊 Drive Visibility Through Security Metrics Create meaningful security posture reporting that translates technical findings into business context, enabling informed risk decisions and continuous improvement. 📝 Define Security Patterns for Engineering Teams Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and decision records that make secure implementation easier and more consistent across the…