security engineer

Higgsfield AI is a generative AI company creating AI-powered video and next-generation creative tools. Its platform serves millions of users and supports video generation for major global brands.

• Evaluate, implement, and maintain cloud security tooling;
• Own infrastructure and container vulnerability management across cloud environments and drive remediation;
• Design and implement network segmentation to strengthen internal security boundaries;
• Build centralized security monitoring across cloud infrastructure;
• Own access governance and credential management across cloud and internal tooling;
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and IT to raise identity and access management standards;
• Set the technical direction for infrastructure security;
• Lead cross-functional projects that turn established standards into tooling and guardrails used by engineers;
• Own immediate implementation work and long-term operational responsibility for cloud and ML infrastructure security, vulnerability management, monitoring, and access governance.

• 7+ Years of experience in infrastructure security or security engineering, including experience at a high-growth startup;
• Hands-on experience securing a major cloud provider and a container orchestrator managed with infrastructure-as-code, including AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform;
• Experience securing ML workloads, including training or inference infrastructure, GPU clusters, or model-serving platforms;
• Solid networking, operating systems, and cryptography fundamentals;
• Strong understanding of container and infrastructure security practices and vulnerability management;
• Ability to work cross-functionally with DevOps, Engineering, and ML teams;
• Ability to independently identify and close security gaps;
• High agency;
• Nice to have: experience with sandboxing, container isolation, or secure execution environments for untrusted code, CSPM rollouts, incident response and security monitoring, SOC 2 or similar frameworks.

• Competitive base salary in USD;
• Equity through participation in the company’s stock option program;
• Relocation from anywhere to the Almaty office is provided.