Remote Security Operations Engineer II — AI-Driven Defense

Doist; United States; Remote; USD 134,100 - 185,600; Full time

Job summary

Upstart is seeking a SecOps Engineer to design automated response mechanisms, triage critical alerts, hunt for threats, and help build our security data lake. You’ll be on the front lines of incident response, protecting our core product platforms and enterprise infrastructure.

This remote-US role favors hands-on engineers with 2+ years in incident detection and response, strong Python and Git skills, and experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code.

Qualifications

• 2 years of Incident Detection and Response Engineering experience.
• Assume breach mindset; chase down threads to closure.
• Strong log-fu and ability to build robust log search queries.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred).
• Git experience; rebasing and collaboration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ingest log feeds and monitor security posture.
• Enhance Detection and Response platforms and automation.
• Investigate and triage incidents using AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead incident response on frontline to protect Upstart.

Skills

Incident Detection & Response

Python

Git

Log analysis

Threat hunting

Tools

AWS

Infra as Code

SOAR

AI-assisted investigation

Job description

Upstart is seeking a SecOps Engineer to design automated response mechanisms, triage critical alerts, hunt for threats, and help build our security data lake. You’ll be on the front lines of incident response, protecting our core product platforms and enterprise infrastructure.

This remote-US role favors hands-on engineers with 2+ years in incident detection and response, strong Python and Git skills, and experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code.