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title: 'Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer at Ridgeline'
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# Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer at Ridgeline

- **Company:** Ridgeline
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/ridgeline/jobs/8046773003?gh_jid=8046773003

## Job description

Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer

Location: Dublin, IE

Ridgeline is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer to set the direction for cloud and infrastructure security across every product line, account, and environment. You will define the architecture vision and the security invariants that guide engineering decisions, and you will be accountable for Ridgeline’s overall cloud security posture.

You will work with Engineering, Product Management, and Technology leaders on cloud security trade-offs that carry business, regulatory, or reputational consequences. You will also help build the team's technical culture and develop Staff-level engineers, so that its standards, detection frameworks, and architectural judgment last beyond any single project. We believe in a culture where security is everyone's responsibility and an integral part of our engineering philosophy.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If this excites you, we’d love to meet you.

You must be permitted to work in Ireland, including under EU work authorization, without the need for employer sponsorship.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the multi-year cloud security architecture vision and the security invariants that govern engineering decisions across all product lines, AWS accounts, and infrastructure.
- Set the technical strategy for cloud security tooling and automation, including how AI changes security operations, and make the build-versus-buy decisions that determine what the team can do for years.
- Drive company-wide guardrails and controls in our AWS environment (e.g., SCPs, IAM boundaries, AWS managed security services, custom-built solutions, and policy-as-code), and implement the standards and processes that keep them enforced.
- Develop threat models and security approaches, and identify emerging threats to identity, data, AI workloads, and infrastructure before they become problems.
- Create frameworks and methodologies for securely integrating third-party cloud services and internal platforms, and see them adopted across Ridgeline.
- Anticipate broad changes in cloud and infrastructure security, identify where our current approach stops scaling, and propose fixes before it does.
- Build AI and automation frameworks, and partner across functions to deploy reusable agents that multiple teams use.
- Deliver large, cross-team projects on schedule and at high quality, breaking complex programs into pieces the contributing teams can execute.
- Build the cloud security team's long-term technical culture, develop Staff-level cloud security engineers, and sponsor the next leaders at Ridgeline.
- Shape C-suite and board-level decisions on cloud security investment, cloud adoption strategy, and organizational risk acceptance.

Who You Are & What Makes You Qualified:

- 10+ years of relevant experience in cloud security or platform engineering, including experience leading large cross-team initiatives with company-wide impact and delivering them on schedule.
- Advanced proficiency in at least one high-level language (Python strongly preferred; Kotlin or TypeScript a plus).
- Expert-level experience with AWS, especially in the following areas:
- Identity and Access Management (IAM, Orgs & SCPs, Identity Center)
- Networking (VPC, Security Groups, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, Network Firewall)
- Compute (EKS, ECS, Lambda)
- Data Persistence (S3, Aurora, DynamoDB)
- Logging & Monitoring (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, CloudWatch)
- Demonstrated success defining enterprise-wide access management strategy and policy frameworks (IAM/SCPs), and cloud security architecture that engineering teams adopted.
- Deep understanding of cloud workload protection, infrastructure monitoring, and threat detection in AWS-native environments.
- Expert-level experience securing Kubernetes and Amazon EKS (including EKS Auto Mode): cluster access control, network policy, Istio service mesh, Kyverno admission policy, and image signing with cosign.
- Fluency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., OpenTofu or Terraform), GitOps delivery (e.g., ArgoCD), and CI/CD practices, and experience setting tooling and automation strategy, including build-versus-buy decisions.
- Proven ability to present cloud security risk and trade-offs to executives, and to influence investment, cloud adoption, and risk acceptance decisions.
- Track record of anticipating broad change in cloud security and acting on it before it became urgent.
- Experience building AI or automation frameworks and reusable agents that change how cross-functional teams work.
- Experience developing senior engineers and sponsoring emerging leaders, and building team standards, detection frameworks, and architectural judgment that outlast individual projects.

## About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, the Bay Area, Dublin Ireland. Ridgeline is recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by Frost & Sullivan as a “Technology Innovation Leader,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

Ridgeline processes the information you submit in connection with your application in accordance with the [Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement](https://www.ridgelineapps.com/legal/candidate-privacy-policy). Please review the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement in full to understand our privacy practices and contact us with any questions.

## About Ridgeline

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ridgeline is an AI-native industry cloud platform purpose-built for investment management, unifying front, middle, and back office workflows in a single system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Incline Village (Lake Tahoe), Nevada, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (founded by Dave Duffield after his tenure at Workday and PeopleSoft)
- **Founders**: Dave Duffield (Founder and Chairman)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Investment management technology / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2B – investment management firms (asset managers, hedge funds, etc.)
- **Mission/purpose**: Give investment managers a competitive advantage with modern technology purpose-built for the industry, combining data, workflows, and AI in one platform.

## Products & Services
All offerings are part of a single cloud-native SaaS platform:
- **Ridgeline Platform**: A unified front-to-back system with modules for portfolio construction, trading, compliance, reconciliation, portfolio accounting, reporting, client engagement, revenue management, and workflow management.
- **Ridgeline Intelligence**: AI-powered capabilities including agentic digital coworkers that automate repetitive tasks, natural language querying of data, and embedded analytics.
- **Reconciliation Engine**: Automated start-of-day reconciliation against a trusted custodial data network.
- **Electronic Trading**: Integration with NYFIX, dark pools, and broker algorithms; post-trade dashboard for CTM/local matches and FIX allocation status.
- **Compliance**: Pre- and post-trade compliance engine configurable at firm, account, and regulatory levels.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Over 400 employees (as of mid-2026); funding rounds not disclosed
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; board includes Dave Duffield and other executives. Platform integrates with NYFIX and major custodians/brokers.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from founding team to 400+ employees across four US offices + remote; rebranded to ridgeline.ai to signal AI-native evolution; continuous product launches (AI workflows, intelligence features in June 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native platform** built from the ground up in the public cloud (not retrofitted legacy tech).
- **Single source of truth** – one platform for front, middle, and back office eliminates data silos.
- **Domain expertise** – founded by enterprise software veterans (PeopleSoft, Workday) who understand complex operational workflows.
- **Real-time data and embedded intelligence** directly in the flow of work, reducing manual effort and risk.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI capabilities: Ridgeline Intelligence, agentic coworkers, and automated reconciliation.
- Expanding the platform’s breadth to cover more investment management workflows.
- Attracting top engineering and domain talent to maintain competitive edge.
- Building a strong partner ecosystem (custodians, brokers, data providers).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High agency, growth mindset, bias towards action, “brilliant jerks not welcome.” Emphasis on trust, transparency, and solving hard problems.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in Incline Village (NV), Reno (NV), San Ramon (CA), New York (NY); select remote roles available.
- **Perks & Benefits** (from careers page):
  - Unlimited vacation
  - $0 premiums for employee-only medical, dental, vision
  - 12-week paid parental leave (primary and secondary caregivers)
  - $1,500 annual education reimbursement
  - $800 annual wellness reimbursement
  - Fertility coverage (through Progyny)
  - 401k with company match
  - Stock option grants
  - Dog-friendly offices
- **Team**: Over 400 employees; actively hiring for engineering, sales, consulting, and support roles.

## Sources
1. [ridgeline.ai – About](https://ridgeline.ai/company/about)
2. [ridgeline.ai – Homepage](https://ridgeline.ai/)
3. [ridgeline.ai – Careers](https://ridgeline.ai/company/careers)
4. [ridgeline.ai – Leadership](https://ridgeline.ai/company/leadership)
5. [linkedin.com – Ridgeline](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridgelineai)

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