Security Engineer, Kubernetes is open at xAI in Austin, TX; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, DC. The posting gives a salary of $100K - $198K. Posted on Oct 20, 2026, and still on xAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Secure the platform end to end: nodes, clusters, pods, roles, tokens, secrets, service-to-service communication, and the supply chain Find and remediate overprivileged permissions, dangerous pod and workload settings, and escalation paths in operators, admission, networking, identity, and monitoring Assess our own platform the way an adversary would, including container and pod breakout, privilege escalation, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on xAI’s careers page.
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