Senior Platform Security Engineer - HP IQ

About the role

HP IQ is HP's new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP's global scale, we're building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We're assembling a diverse, world-class team-engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds-focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP's portfolio. Together, we're developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful-always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we're expanding what's possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. As a Platform Security Engineer within HP IQ's Product Security team, you will ensure our infrastructure and services are designed, built, and operated with security at their core. You'll influence architecture and design decisions, integrate security into engineering workflows, and scale security practices that enable teams to move fast without compromising trust. What You Might Do Design, implement, and scale security controls across cloud, infrastructure, and hardware layers. Build automated security controls, policy enforcement, and detection capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling. Define security standards and reference architectures that serve as the engineering baseline across infrastructure and services. Drive adoption of secure-by-default principles across engineering teams, influencing system design and platform planning. Perform threat modeling and security architecture reviews that directly shape product and platform decisions. Translate compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) into technical security controls, owning the engineering implementation end-to-end. Own the vulnerability management lifecycle end-to-end, driving root cause analysis, defining remediation patterns, and engineering hardening solutions into platform infrastructure. Essential Qualifications 5+ years of experience as a platform security engineer or equivalent. Strong command of security principles applied to production systems, with demonstrated experience designing and building controls at scale. Experience building and securing production workloads in at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with working knowledge of the relevant Well-Architected Framework security pillars. Proven experience securing Kubernetes, container runtimes, and software supply chain components. Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or equivalent), applied to hardening infrastructure configurations, enforcing least-privilege baselines, and eliminating configuration drift across environments. Proficiency in at least one modern language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java), applied to building internal security tooling and automation. Ability to communicate security architecture decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering teams and leadership. Preferred Skills Hands-on experience designing and building identity and network security components in infrastructure, including IAM policies, service mesh configurations, network segmentation, and zero-trust controls. Proven ability to architect and integrate security controls across CI/CD pipelines, owning the DevSecOps toolchain from design through enforcement. Experience translating and implementing compliance framework requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST) into engineering deliverables. Experience securing AI products or edge-connected systems at scale. Experience building or contributing to a security engineering function within a product-focused organization. Track record of driving cross-functional security outcomes without direct authority, including influencing engineering and platform roadmaps toward stronger security posture. Salary: $180,000- $250,000 Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees) The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills. At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including: Health insurance Dental insurance Vision insurance Long term/short term disability insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Life insurance Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure 11 paid holidays Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview) Why HP IQ? HP IQ is HP's new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity-reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work. Innovative Work Help shape the future