Principal AI Security Tooling & Automation Engineer

Archer; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 169,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life and AD&D insurance

Parental leave benefits

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

TransUnion LLC is seeking a Principal, Cybersecurity to lead the development of agentic AI-powered security tooling and automation. The role embeds within engineering teams to design, implement, and scale automation across vulnerability management, remediation workflows, and CI/CD security gates.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in security engineering, strong Python/Go expertise, and a track record of delivering production-grade automation with observable, reliable systems. On-site in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years hands-on experience in security engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering with a strong security component.
• Experience with API integration, data pipelines, and internal tooling at production scale.
• Strong understanding of security engineering fundamentals related to automation of findings.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an agentic automation framework and orchestration layer for tool invocation, state management, and observability.
• Own internal security tooling, including vulnerability intelligence interfaces and remediation-tracking dashboards.
• Integrate diverse security data sources via API integrations, data connectors, and normalization pipelines.
• Automate remediation initiation and tracking, monitor SLAs, and close the loop from findings to resolution.
• Embed security automation into CI/CD pipelines and pre-production security gates.
• Ensure reliability through observability, alerting, and operational health of tooling.
• Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and represent tooling with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to share context, co-own outcomes, and build trust.

Skills

Security engineering

API integration

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

Go

Job description

TransUnion LLC is seeking a Principal, Cybersecurity to lead the development of agentic AI-powered security tooling and automation. The role embeds within engineering teams to design, implement, and scale automation across vulnerability management, remediation workflows, and CI/CD security gates.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in security engineering, strong Python/Go expertise, and a track record of delivering production-grade automation with observable, reliable systems. On-site in the U.S.