Principal Security AI Tooling & Automation Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

TransUnion LLC is seeking a senior security/forward deployed engineer to design and own a production-grade automation framework for security workflows. You will lead internal tooling, dashboards, and integrations across data sources, enabling automated remediation and reliable security operations.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineering and DevOps to embed automation in CI/CD, improve observability, and govern security across embedded teams while mentoring engineers and shaping

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on security engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering with security focus.
• Experience with API integration, data-pipeline engineering and production-grade internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an automation framework for security workflows.
• Own internal security tooling development and dashboards for SFDE/partner teams.
• Integrate disparate security data sources via API integrations and normalization pipelines.
• Automate remediation initiation, tracking, and escalation of SLAs.
• Embed security automation into CI/CD pipelines and pre-production gates.
• Ensure reliability, observability, alerting, and health of tooling stack.

Skills

Agentic automation

API integration

Security engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Data pipelines

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Developer tooling

Job description

TransUnion LLC is seeking a senior security/forward deployed engineer to design and own a production-grade automation framework for security workflows. You will lead internal tooling, dashboards, and integrations across data sources, enabling automated remediation and reliable security operations.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineering and DevOps to embed automation in CI/CD, improve observability, and govern security across embedded teams while mentoring engineers and shaping