Remote Security Engineer - Threat Detection & Automation

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plan options

Flexible time off

12 company holidays

Phone and home internet allowances

Retirement plan access

Optional pet benefit

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Security Engineer to help protect the organization’s internal systems, people, and data. You will investigate alerts, hunt for threats, and improve detections and response procedures using automation-forward practices and AI-assisted tooling.

The role emphasizes incident analysis, scripting, and the development of repeatable playbooks. You will collaborate across teams and participate in rotating on-call duties to respond to incidents outside standard hours.

Qualifications

• Experience triaging events with technical accuracy and timely escalation.
• Understanding of attack methods, common vectors, TCP/IP and networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on automation experience using Python or similar to security operations workflows.
• Familiarity with AI agents or LLMs for safe, effective tooling.

Responsibilities

• Triage and prioritize security events, identify root causes, and resolve or escalate incidents.
• Hunt proactively for adversary activity and tune high-confidence detections.
• Turn threat intelligence into hunts, detections, and response actions that reduce risk.
• Create security operations tooling and automation, using AI coding agents where appropriate and reviewing, testing, and safely deploying their output.
• Improve detection-as-code, runbooks, documentation, and repeatability.
• Collaborate with colleagues and internal teams to share knowledge and strengthen security practices.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for incidents outside standard working hours.

Skills

Incident triage

Threat hunting

Automation with AI tools

Python scripting

Collaboration

Education

High school diploma + 5 years

Bachelor’s degree + 2 years

Master’s degree

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Automation tooling

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Security Engineer to help protect the organization’s internal systems, people, and data. You will investigate alerts, hunt for threats, and improve detections and response procedures using automation-forward practices and AI-assisted tooling.

The role emphasizes incident analysis, scripting, and the development of repeatable playbooks. You will collaborate across teams and participate in rotating on-call duties to respond to incidents outside standard hours.