Senior Product Security Infrastructure Engineer

  • Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
  • Palo Alto, California
  • 04/02/2026
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Job Description

Senior Product Security Infrastructure Engineer

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About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive's next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we're addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world. The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we'll map a new way forward. Working together, we'll create a future that's more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

The Product Security team develops and implements security protection into the vehicle and supporting infrastructure. We are involved in the full chain of security from defining the requirements, planning software and hardware security, developing, deploying, and maintaining security protections. As a Product Security Infrastructure engineer, this person will develop and scale services and infrastructure that are critical security components for vehicle manufacture and operation. This engineer will help develop security critical services according to cloud native best practices and help us ensure that we are developing services in a way that will limit technical debt and toil. The role can be located in California (Irvine or Palo Alto) and reports directly to the Sr. Manager, Product Security Infrastructure.

Responsibilities
  • Support, maintain, and improve in-house security critical services.
  • Help meet and exceed scalability standards and demonstrate cloud native best practices.
  • Help in the implementation of new and existing security services.
  • Participate in team incident response/support processes.
  • Mitigate vulnerabilities found or reported by internal and external parties by aligning with company's goals and objectives.
  • Implement cybersecurity protections to comply with regulations and industry standards.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience using modern server side programming languages such as Go or Python to develop web services.
  • Working understanding of modern cryptography, cloud, and security best practices in service development.
  • Experience in SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps or similar working with production services.
  • Real world experience in cloud native development, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, reliability engineering, production engineering.
  • Experience working with cross functional heterogeneous engineering teams to ensure reliability of security critical services.
  • Experience working on projects from planning through completion.
Pay Disclosure

Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Palo Alto, California Based Applicants: $162,800 - $203,500 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

Salary Range/Hourly Rate for Irvine, California Based Applicants: $149,800 - $187,200 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

Benefits Summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full time and part time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Full time employee coverage is effective on the first day of employment. Part time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at .

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