What You’ll Be Doing:
Build, deploy, manage and improve critical security platforms, services and systems.
Advise account and access management teams on leading security practices for authentication and authorization, SSO, PKI, and secrets management.
Deploy and manage assurance tooling, logging solutions, and perform security audits.
Contribute to development and implementation of security abstraction layers to improve the security and resilience of the current environment and help our teams build safer code.
Own cross functional integration work with Rigetti’s QPU software team (e.g. prod authorization/authentication systems) to enable secure quantum computing.
Have a security-focused mindset and be an outspoken advocate for customer trust and privacy protection resulting in pragmatic security solutions to manage business risk.
Continuously assess and identify areas of the Rigetti infrastructure that can be strengthened.
Create and maintain documentation and follow up on tickets to drive mitigation and resolution.
Iterate and improve rather than build the initial perfect product.
Roll up your sleeves, dig into problems, and get to the bottom of finding root causes of security issues.
Mentor the entire Rigetti team on security best practices.
Research, evaluate, and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.
Mitigate and minimize the impact of all threats to our networks, ranging from internal malware to botnets and DDoS’s.
Directly support the cybersecurity incident response processes as needed to combat threat actors.
What You Bring to the Table:
4-6+ years of combined experience across infrastructure security, information security, cloud security, network security, and/or application security.
Technical deployment, debugging, and diagnostic skills.
Solid understanding of multiple Operating Systems as well as virtualization and networking fundamentals.
Experience creating and scaling infrastructure using configuration management tools like Terraform, Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
Experience with penetration testing and/or deploying vulnerability management solutions preferred.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to work in collaborative efforts and projects across Infrastructure, Quantum, Applications, Networking IT and business teams.
Ability to participate in incident response activities.
Experience working in Hybrid cloud technology environments.
Experience securing 3rd party SaaS applications/platforms.
Experience with Security developing solutions that align with regulatory and contractual governance requirements preferred.
Experience building security capabilities while coordinating between engineering, development, and business teams preferred.
Experience coding for configuration or automation purposes preferred.
Benefits and Perks:
Rigetti seeks individuals who are motivated by grand challenges and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the exciting quantum computing space. As long-term visionaries, we offer employees opportunities for continuous personal and professional growth so they can advance our mission to help solve humanity's most important and pressing problems. To support the financial success and health of our employees and their families, we offer the following benefits in addition to a competitive base salary:
- 401k Plan
- Generous Equity Grant
- 98% coverage on Medical (Kaiser or Anthem Blue Cross), Guardian Dental, Guardian Vision
- Anthem Blue Cross Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Opportunities for additional performance-based equity grants or bonuses
To help our employees bring their best selves to work, we also offer various perks to support each individual to perform at their highest level and foster work life balance. All full-time exempt employees are eligible for:
- Flexible PTO as soon as they join.
- Fitness Activity & Gym Membership Reimbursement
- 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
- FSA & Commuter Benefits
- Employment Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Work Schedule