AI-Powered Security Operations Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; CAD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CircleCI is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to protect our cloud, CI/CD, and product infrastructure. The role emphasizes AI-assisted detection, incident response, and security automation to strengthen controls across environments.

You will work with Engineering to translate risks into practical security guidance and contribute to the security roadmap while staying current on AI-related threats and defenses.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of security engineering or security operations experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud, application, and CI/CD security (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with security incident response and tooling: EDR, CNAPP, SASE, vulnerability scanners, log analysis.
• Experience building and maintaining security automation and tooling (Go, Python, Terraform).
• AI/ML-powered security tools in production environments; understanding AI security implications.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats across CircleCI’s cloud and application environments, using AI-assisted tooling.
• Participate in security risk assessments, incident response, post-incident reviews, and on-call rotations.
• Build and maintain security tooling and automation across cloud, application, and CI/CD environments.

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Incident response

AI/ML security tools

Tools

EDR

CNAPP

SASE

Vulnerability scanners

Log analysis

Go

Python

Terraform

Job description

CircleCI is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to protect our cloud, CI/CD, and product infrastructure. The role emphasizes AI-assisted detection, incident response, and security automation to strengthen controls across environments.

You will work with Engineering to translate risks into practical security guidance and contribute to the security roadmap while staying current on AI-related threats and defenses.