Symbotic

Senior Security Automation Engineer

Symbotic
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3 months ago
Wilmington, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$120k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain AI-driven automations, internal applications, copilots, and workflow orchestration solutions.
  • Build agentic workflows that retrieve context, reason through tasks, use approved tools, and generate actionable outputs.
  • Automate security, compliance, and operational processes such as user access reviews, software approvals, and compliance evidence collection.
  • Integrate workflows with ITSM, IAM, SIEM, SOAR, GRC, ticketing, knowledge management, vulnerability management, and cloud security platforms.
  • Develop secure human-in-the-loop approval patterns and reusable workflow, prompt, template, and service components.
  • Partner with Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance, and business stakeholders to identify opportunities and deliver technical solutions.
  • Contribute to penetration-testing and red-team efforts and help define AI security, governance, compliance, and guardrail standards.
  • Measure outcomes including time saved, error reduction, throughput improvement, and risk reduction.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
  • At least five years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack depth across client, server, data/storage, and DevOps.
  • Two years of experience in “parrot nerotrophiccs” as stated in the posting.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt design, and AI-assisted development tools.
  • Ability to review and validate AI-generated code before production deployment.
  • Strong development skills, ideally in Python, with API-driven integrations, webhooks, message queues, databases, and workflow orchestration platforms.
  • Experience building internal tools, automation workflows, or enterprise service integrations.
  • Understanding of secure system design, identity and access management, role-based access control, secrets management, and audit logging.
  • Ability to independently translate ambiguous business needs into documented production systems and communicate across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Preferred: familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, IAM, GRC, vulnerability management, endpoint or cloud security platforms; ISO 27001 and SOC 2; penetration testing and red-team tooling; TypeScript, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, SQLite, BigQuery, and infrastructure as code.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement at the Wilmington, Massachusetts headquarters with no travel required.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and/or other benefits.

Tech Stack

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About Symbotic

1,001-5,000 employees

Symbotic builds AI-enabled warehouse automation systems that combine high-density storage, autonomous robots, and warehouse execution software for large retailers, wholesalers, and consumer-goods distributors. The company sells and operates end-to-end material-handling platforms, including automated case picking and AS/RS, delivered through system deployments and long-term service agreements. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Symbotic is a public company on Nasdaq (SYM) and counts Walmart among its customers.

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