Founding Platform & Security Engineer (DevSecOps)
Porters
Posted on Mar 3, 2026
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Founding Platform & Security Engineer (DevSecOps)
The Context: Banking is built on trust. Porters has a solid AWS foundation running on CloudFormation, but as we scale, we must further improve our platform excellence and cybersecurity posture. This is a founding role with a dual focus on compliance architecture and platform/cloud engineering.
The Mission: You will own our infrastructure and security architecture end-to-end. You will lead the "Heavy Lift" of achieving certification (starting with ISO27001) while further building out our networking layer that allows us to run secure workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
This job is in person (Zurich, Switzerland) or remote (CET +/-3 hours).
Your Responsibilities
Architect Cross-Cloud Workloads: Design and implement the networking to run cross-platform inference (e.g., calling Gemini in Vertex AI from AWS ECS)
Evolve our AWS Stack: Augment our existing CloudFormation approach, e.g., accelerated deployment and improved CI/CD practices, multi-region replication/failover, auto-scaling, etc.
Advanced Authentication: Build our Machine-to-Machine (M2M) inbound authentication layer for secure inbound calls from customer systems
Compliance & DPO: Uphold our certification using Vanta, serve as the right hand of our Data Protection Officer (DPO), establish our BCP and Disaster Recovery plans
Your Profile
Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Security Engineering, with a specific focus on fintech or regulated industries
Cloud & Infrastructure Mastery: Deep mastery of AWS (ECS, RDS, IAM, VPC) and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform). Proven experience setting up secure, cross-platform networking in Azure or GCP
Security & Compliance: Direct experience guiding a startup through certification readiness and maintaining it (e.g., ISO27001, SOC2, PCI DSS). Familiarity with Vanta, Risk Registers, and implementing Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plans
Automation Mindset: Strong proficiency in Python for infrastructure automation and GitHub Actions for CI/CD. You are capable of implementing "Database as Code" and automated security scanning (SAST/DAST) into the pipeline
What We Offer
Direct Impact: You won't be a cog in a machine. You will work directly with clients, ship fast, and see your code running in production at major financial institutions
Founder Collaboration: Work closely with founders who have successfully built and scaled fintech and analytics products before
Compensation: Competitive salary and significant equity on top of your compensation
Growth: A dedicated development budget—free to use for whatever gives you a level-up
Gear & Culture: New MacBook, merch, regular team events and dinners, a fast-paced, inclusive, and impact-oriented culture
Our stack
Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation (primary), Docker, and AWS ECS Fargate
Core AWS: RDS Aurora, IAM, VPC, Cognito, and CloudFront
Multi-Cloud: Networking and security for Azure and GCP (Vertex AI) workloads
Compliance & Ops: Vanta (for ISO27001), GitHub Actions (CI/CD), and Database as Code
If what’s written above speaks to you, whether you look like a fit on paper or not, please reach out to the Porters founders Michael, Chris, and Konstantin on founders@withporters.com
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