CareerPlan

Senior Security Operations Engineer

San FranciscoFull-time$192k–$240k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Prevent, detect, and respond to security threats across corporate and cloud environments using existing systems and custom tools.

Role type

Senior Security Operations Engineer (Incident Response & Detection)

Builds

Security tools, automation, and open source project Substation

Domain

Financial services, Cloud Security, Detection & Response

Required skills

Security incident response, alert triage, threat hunting, SIEM, SOAR, cloud security tools, CI/CD, DevOps, Go, Python

Preferred skills

Distributed systems security, Kubernetes, AWS, open source contributions

Technologies

Go, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Git, Buildkite, Flux, SIEM, SOAR

Responsibilities

Perform security incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation; Lead, scope, and build features for security domains; Collaborate with engineering teams to drive remediation within SLAs; Participate in threat hunting and security exercises

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC