Synthesia

SecOps Security Engineer (Staff-level, L6)

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11 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and own technical security improvements across AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems, including making production changes directly.
  • Design, implement, and iterate on SIEM, EDR/MDR, cloud-native detection, and CNAPP capabilities.
  • Hunt, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspicious activity from triage through recovery and post-incident learnings.
  • Write detection logic, tooling, playbooks, and response automations to prevent recurrence and reduce operational toil.
  • Build internal security tooling and integrations using infrastructure-as-code, scripts, and automation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment.
  • Hands-on cloud security engineering experience with AWS and/or GCP, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, and logging.
  • Experience securing Kubernetes and container ecosystems through cluster hardening, workload isolation, runtime security, and policy controls.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD security, secrets management, artifact integrity, and secure-by-default DevOps platform patterns.
  • Incident response and investigation experience, including repeatable playbooks and automated response.
  • Strong programming or scripting ability, such as Python, and experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
  • Experience with endpoint security tooling such as CrowdStrike and serious agent coding.
  • Experience with security tools such as Hunters, Wiz, Falcon, Tracebit, Torii, Okta, Google Workspace, StrongDM, GitHub, StepSecurity, or Dope Security is a bonus.
  • Relevant information security certifications such as AWS Certified Security, GIAC GWEB, OSCP, or CSSLP are a bonus.
  • Experience in a fast-growing startup, scale-up, or SaaS company.

Benefits

  • Remote position for candidates on the US East Coast or Central time zones.
  • Stock options in a fast-growing Series E startup.
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays and paid sick leave.
  • Regular company socials and a fun culture.
  • Generous referral scheme.
  • Brand-new computer and monitor.
  • Budget and support for conference travel, community events, and content production.
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About Synthesia

501-1,000 employees
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