Principal Engineer, Security AI Tooling and Automation
TransUnion2 days ago
Base Salary
$169k - $281k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain an agentic automation framework for end-to-end security workflows, including tool orchestration, state management, retries, observability, and failure handling.
- Develop internal security tooling, vulnerability intelligence interfaces, remediation-tracking integrations, and operator-facing dashboards.
- Build API integrations, data connectors, and normalization pipelines that produce a coherent queryable security data model.
- Automate remediation initiation and tracking, including fix workflows, remediation monitoring, SLA escalation, and validated resolution.
- Embed security automation and enforcement gates into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with Platform Engineering and DevOps.
- Own production reliability through observability, alerting, failure handling, and operational health practices.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and represent tooling capabilities with senior stakeholders.
- Work directly with engineering teams to share context, co-own outcomes, and deliver embedded technical solutions.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of hands-on experience in security engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering, including a strong security engineering component.
- Strong experience with API integration, data-pipeline engineering, and production-scale internal developer or operator tooling.
- Knowledge of security fundamentals including vulnerability classes, exploit mechanics, and remediation patterns.
- Ability to design reliable, observable, and maintainable automation systems and make build-versus-integrate trade-offs.
- Production experience building agentic AI or LLM-powered automation frameworks in Python or Go, including tool use, orchestration, and multi-step workflows.
- Experience engineering CI/CD pipelines and automated security enforcement gates.
- Experience operating production integrations, data connectors, normalization pipelines, observability, alerting, state management, retries, and failure handling.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes security tooling, vulnerability-intelligence platforms, agentic AI frameworks, container or image hardening, infrastructure as code, runtime security instrumentation, open-source security tooling, security-research automation, exploit-validation tooling, or financial services.
Benefits
- Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage with supplemental plan options and eligible dependent coverage.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance, disability coverage, legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.
- Adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, caregiver support, Dependent Care FSA, Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long-term care insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement, flexible or paid time off depending on classification, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time.
- 24/7 therapy, coaching, emotional well-being, meditation, and wellness resources.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least two days per week in an assigned TransUnion office.
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About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global credit bureau and information-services company that provides credit data, identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk analytics to businesses and consumers. It sells data, APIs, and decisioning software used by lenders, insurers, telecoms, and other regulated industries, and offers consumer credit reports and monitoring. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Chicago, it operates in more than 30 countries and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker TRU.