Remote Security Operations Engineer, GRC & Automation

AssemblyAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

401k match

Employer-paid benefits

Job summary

AssemblyAI is hiring a Security Operations Engineer to own the security program within a small, fast-moving team. You will drive audit cycles, manage Vanta automation, and coordinate with auditors and internal stakeholders.

The role emphasizes deep operational ownership, collaboration with sales and legal on customer security needs, and expanding automation to reduce manual toil across security and compliance functions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in security operations, GRC, IT security, or a related role.
• 2+ years of experience with compliance audit cycles—you've gathered evidence, documented controls, and worked with auditors.
• One or more security certifications—CISA, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent.
• Experience executing recurring security operations work: security reviews, vulnerability tracking, alert triage, or control monitoring.
• Strong organization—you can run a multi-week evidence collection cycle across many stakeholders without dropping threads.
• Strong written communication skills—you'll write audit documentation, security questionnaire responses, policy documents, and runbooks regularly.
• Proficiency in Python and comfort reading code written by others.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to write scripts, build automations, and accelerate documentation.

Responsibilities

• Drive SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI 4.0, and other compliance audit cycles: gather and organize evidence, document, design, and build controls, coordinate directly with auditors through fieldwork, and collaborate with internal teams on remediation.
• Own the compliance automation platform (Vanta): monitor control status, chase down failing checks, keep integrations healthy, and update the risk register as the business and infrastructure evolve.
• Run vendor and third-party risk reviews, security assessments of new tools, periodic re-reviews, and track subprocessor and vendor inventories.
• Partner with sales and legal responding to customer and vendor security questionnaires, RFP security sections, and trust-and-safety inquiries.
• Drive vulnerability triage and prioritization across teams, tracking remediation against SLAs and reporting metrics to stakeholders.
• Monitor and respond to alerts from endpoint, cloud, identity, and application security tools; investigate, elevate, and close the loop.
• Support incident response for security events: evidence collection, timeline construction, documentation, and tracking of post-incident action items.
• Maintain and improve security runbooks, process documentation, and operational playbooks.
• Build automation to reduce the manual burden via scripts, integrations, reporting, and tooling.

Skills

Security operations

GRC

Python

AI tooling

Technical writing

Audit coordination

Education

Security certifications

Tools

Python

Job description

AssemblyAI is hiring a Security Operations Engineer to own the security program within a small, fast-moving team. You will drive audit cycles, manage Vanta automation, and coordinate with auditors and internal stakeholders.

The role emphasizes deep operational ownership, collaboration with sales and legal on customer security needs, and expanding automation to reduce manual toil across security and compliance functions.