Senior Security Automation Engineer

About the role

Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. The Security Automation team within our Information Security organization is seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design and build AI-driven automations, internal applications, copilots, and workflow orchestration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI-driven automations, internal applications, copilots, and workflow orchestration solutions that improve how Security, IT, GRC, and business teams operate.
• Build agentic workflows that can retrieve context, reason through tasks, use approved tools, and generate actionable outputs.
• Automate repetitive security, compliance, and operational processes such as user access reviews, software approval workflows, and compliance evidence collection to reduce manual effort and accelerate response times.
• Develop secure human-in-the-loop approval patterns for high-risk, sensitive, or business-critical AI-driven actions.
• Create reusable workflow patterns, prompts, templates, and service components that can be adopted across teams.
• Partner with stakeholders across Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance, and the business to identify high-value automation opportunities and translate needs into practical technical solutions.
• Contribute to penetration-testing and red-team efforts as our offensive security program grows.
• Measure and report outcomes such as time saved, error reduction, throughput improvement, and risk reduction.
• Help define standards, governance, and guardrails for the secure, responsible, and compliant use of AI across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience with genuine full-stack depth — client, server, and data/storage — and the DevOps skills (Docker, CI/CD, cloud) to run what you build.
• Hands-on experience building with AI and LLM systems{{:}} LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt design, and AI-assisted development tools — including the judgment to review and validate AI-generated code before it ships.
• Strong development skills, ideally Python, with API-driven integrations{{:}} REST APIs, webhooks, message queues, databases, and workflow orchestration platforms.
• Experience building internal tools, automation workflows, or service integrations in enterprise environments.
• Understanding secure system design{{:}} identity and access management, role-based access control, secrets management, and audit logging.

Qualifications

• The autonomy to take an ambiguous business needs and deliver a working, documented, production system with minimal direction, plus strong communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.

Skills

• Familiarity with enterprise security platforms{{:}} SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, IAM, GRC, vulnerability management, endpoint or cloud security.
• Exposure compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2) and control automation.
• Interest or experience in penetration testing and red-team tooling.
• TypeScript, Go, or Rust; PostgreSQL, SQLite, or BigQuery; infrastructure as code.

Benefits

Our environment is hybrid at our Wilmington, MA headquarters. No travel required.

Pay

The base range for this position in the posted location is $120,000.00 - $165,000.00 however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO and/or other benefits.