We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries. 

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Compensation: $190,000-$235,000 including superannuation, plus employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

As a Lead Security Engineer, you are someone has some experience leading a team at a fast-past startup or in a recognised cybersecurity consulting firm, leading delivery of Cloud-first products or have been involved in the re-architecture of existing Cloud infrastructure towards Cloud-native design patterns that are horizontally scalable with always-up guarantees.

You'll be able to drive design decisions to establish a ‘paved road’ for the business to be able to deliver software and services using secure-by-default and secure-by-design patterns where security is automatically baked in, with a vision for what a highly secure Kubernetes environment and modern SSDLC process should like and are excited to get an opportunity to have the autonomy and remit to take charge and help drive change at Rokt to deliver on that vision.

About the Role:

• Lead the existing Security Engineering team in Sydney, whom are focused on Cloud, Data, Network, and Application security
• Assist in the design and delivery of a secure-by-default and secure-by-design core operating environment based on ‘Zero Trust’ principles
• Assist in the design and delivery of a standardized SDLC process with automated CI/CD pipelines to provide security assurance and address supply chain risks throughout the development lifecycle
• Develop security standards, guidelines and architectural patterns that facilitate rapid deployment of new applications and services while maintaining security best practices.
• Define a comprehensive Cloud security strategy and change management process, ensuring all infrastructure, configuration, applications and policies are managed ‘as code’ and pass necessary security gates.
• Ensure all data stored in the Cloud is discovered and appropriately governed and protected in accordance with compliance requirements and business goals..

Requirements

About You:

• 8+ years in security engineering, and 3+ years as a hands on team lead or manager.
• Navigated large scale and multi-Cloud environments, in active-active configurations with an expectation of zero downtime, using either or both AWS & GCP, with strong expertise in Kubernetes and familiarity with CNCF projects (Istio/Envoy, Cillium, OPA, Tetragon, …)
• Good understanding of security technologies, including network security, cryptography, workload identity and authorization, secure coding practices, cloud security, and more. Stay updated on the latest security threats and mitigation techniques.
• Some software engineering background including coding patterns and foundational algorithms
• Experience maturing a software delivery pipeline using modern supply chain best practices and technologies, including immutable builds, hermetic builds, SLSA, OpenSSF, SBOM, CBOM, code signing, etc.

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About The Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

• Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.