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title: 'Senior Security Engineer at Tigera'
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# Senior Security Engineer at Tigera

- **Company:** Tigera
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/tigera/jobs/4706343005?gh_jid=4706343005

## Job description

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

## About Your Role

Tigera is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to own product and cloud security across our product suite. You will lead threat models and security design reviews of new features, partner with engineering to harden our products and SaaS infrastructure, drive vulnerability and CVE management end-to-end, and contribute to detection engineering and the Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). The role spans application security and cloud security, ensuring Tigera's portfolio meets enterprise and regulated-industry compliance requirements while building secure-by-default patterns and self-service guardrails that scale security through automation and developer enablement.

We are looking for a pragmatic security minded engineer who is as comfortable shipping security software and tooling as they are leading a threat model, and who scales security by empowering engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.

For this position, we are looking to hire in Vancouver (Hybrid).

Vancouver Salary Range: CAD $130,000 to CAD $150,000

You Will

- Lead vulnerability management end-to-end across the Calico portfolio — internal security testing, triage, development of proofs-of-concept and fixes, issuing CVEs, and remediation in partnership with engineering — leveraging AI-assisted tooling to scale outcomes.
- Conduct threat modeling and security design reviews across Calico Open Source, Calico Enterprise, and Calico Cloud, and drive product hardening and cloud-infrastructure security work to meet enterprise and regulated-industry expectations.
- Ensure code security across the Calico product portfolio through secure code review, static analysis (SAST) and dependency scanning, and secure coding guidance for engineering teams.
- Build and develop internal security tooling, write proofs-of-concept, contribute to patches, and dig into product code to validate findings and drive security remediation alongside engineering.
- Contribute to detection engineering across our cloud footprint and our corporate environment, and participate in the Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) supporting investigations and post-incident reviews.
- Drive adoption of secure-by-default patterns, paved-road tooling, and AI-assisted security automation across Tigera that scale security through developer enablement.

You Have

- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience across product and/or cloud security
- Practical experience driving vulnerability management end-to-end — discovery, triage, exploitability assessment, proof-of-concept and fix development, and CVE coordination
- Experience with threat modeling and security design reviews across the software development lifecycle
- Experience conducting internal security testing or penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure using industry-standard tools (e.g. Burpsuite)
- A drive to scale security through automation, tooling, and developer enablement in a highly collaborative environment
- Familiarity of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud security across one or more major providers (GCP, Azure, AWS)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including authoring threat models, security advisories, and customer-facing security artifacts
- Coding ability in Python, Go or similar

Nice-to-Have

- Experience with software supply-chain security, securing host, database, and application solutions in microservices or cloud architecture
- Experience with penetration testing (purple teaming) infrastructure and web applications
- Experience with detection engineering experience with security platforms
- Contributions to open-source security projects, bug bounty programs, public CVE disclosures, or security research publications
- Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, GIAC, or equivalent

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.

## About Tigera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tigera provides unified security, observability, and authorization control for AI agents and Kubernetes workloads through its Calico and Lynx platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $53M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Ratan Tipirneni (CEO), Pervez Sikora (former President), Alain Mayer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Kubernetes-native networking and security; AI agent security and governance
- **Target customers**: AI & Platform Engineering teams, Security teams at large enterprises (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: "Control and visibility for every AI workload and agent, wherever they run"

## Products & Services
- **[Calico Platform](https://www.tigera.io/)**: Unified platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. Powered by Calico Open Source, Istio, Envoy, and eBPF. Provides full visibility into AI agents, runtime enforcement, and policy automation across any Kubernetes distribution, VM, or bare metal host. Used by 1M+ clusters daily.
- **[Lynx](https://www.tigera.io/)**: AI Agent Security, Observability & Enforcement for Kubernetes. Allows teams to audit, observe, and enforce what AI agents are authorized to do *before* they act. Audit-ready by default with traceable logs for every agent action and policy decision.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$10.5M per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
  - Total Funding: $53M (Series B closed Dec 2018 for $30M; Series A $13M in 2016; Venture round $10M)
  - Nodes Secured Daily: 8M+
  - Clusters Under Management: 1M+
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, Upwork
- **Investors/Partners**: 4 investors in Series B, 3 in Series A (exact names not fully disclosed in source)
- **Growth Signals**: Operating across 6 countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, India, Israel, UK); named GigaOM Leader and Outperformer; expanding into AI agent security (Lynx product launch)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Kubernetes expertise**: Created and maintains Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution
- **NSX alternative**: Migrate off VMware NSX without rearchitecting the network
- **Proactive enforcement**: Unlike traditional security tools that audit after the fact, Tigera enforces authorization *before* agents act
- **Proven at scale**: 8M+ nodes secured daily across 1M+ clusters in production at demanding enterprises
- **No vendor lock-in**: Works across every Kubernetes distribution, cloud provider, and on-premises environment
- **Single console**: One operator installs, configures, and manages the full networking and security stack

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Security**: Extending policy enforcement and observability to govern autonomous AI agents as they become embedded in critical business processes
- **Simplification**: Reducing operational burden with automated policy recommendations, testing, and deployment
- **Unified platform**: Eliminating tool sprawl and fragmented controls across Kubernetes environments
- **Open-source commitment**: Maintaining Calico Open Source as the leading standard while offering advanced capabilities commercially

## Why Work Here
- **Company culture**: Collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect and commitment. Core values include continuous learning, building, and testing. 4.6/5.0 employer rating (63 reviews) with high marks for culture (4.6), work-life balance (4.5), and career growth (4.5) per [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Global team with offices in USA, Canada, Ireland, and England; emphasizes flexible work environment
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with stock options, top-tier health/vision/dental benefits, monthly wellness allowance, quarterly team events, weekly team lunches, happy hours
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on continuous learning, certification, and open-source contribution. Team includes former engineers from Metaswitch, VMware, Microsoft, NGINX, and Project Calico
- **Team composition**: 87 employees currently; 44 in technical roles, 9 in product, 8 in marketing. Senior-heavy team (29 senior, 17 other management)
- **Active openings**: 6 positions including Senior AI/ML Engineer, Senior TestOps Engineer, Senior UI Engineer, Senior SDET, and Enterprise Account Executives

## Sources
1. [tigera.io](https://www.tigera.io/)
2. [tigera.io/about](https://www.tigera.io/about/)
3. [tigera.io/careers](https://www.tigera.io/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Tigera](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigera)
5. [Workable - Tigera openings](https://apply.workable.com/tigera/?lng=en)

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