Senior Security Automation Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation that reduces manual effort, suppresses operational noise, and accelerates cyber defense outcomes. This role focuses on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will build safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems.

100% remote. West Coast candidates (not preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across security domains
• Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions
• Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, and containment workflows
• Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration or approvals are required
• Implement safety controls including:
  • Kill switches
  • Dry-run and test modes
  • Time-limited actions
  • Staged deployments (development, testing, production)
• Ensure observability and auditability by logging automation actions with correlation identifiers
• Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams
• Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 6+ years of experience in security engineering or security automation
• Strong experience building production-grade automation systems
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, PowerShell, or similar)
• Solid understanding of:
  • Security operations workflows
  • Alert enrichment and suppression
  • Containment and response patterns
• Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems
• Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data platforms
• Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM, ticketing, or orchestration engines)
• Experience designing rollback, TTL, and staged enforcement models
• Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision outputs
• Experience building dashboards or metrics for automation outcomes

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload
• Suppression of alert and ticket noise through effective automation patterns
• Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains
• Automation actions that are trusted due to strong logging, safety controls, and transparency
• Recognition as a senior engineer who enables scalable, enterprise-safe automation