Security Engineer – Automation & Incident Response

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure through hands-on investigation, on-call rotation, and building production-grade tooling. You will partner with engineering, security, and product teams to detect threats and automate responses across cloud environments.

The ideal candidate has strong Python/Go/Ruby skills, experience with AWS or GCP, and a proactive, independent approach to solving complex security problems in a fast-paced startup setting.

Qualifications

• Experience as a security engineer, detection engineer, or similarly hands-on engineer in a technically demanding environment.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language with ability to build maintainable tooling.
• Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities, or anomalous activity through to resolution.
• Familiarity with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and access reviews.
• Solid understanding of web, browser, infrastructure, or cloud security and practical application.
• Good judgment under pressure with an independent, methodical investigative approach.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to explain risks and actions clearly

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering work end to end: investigate alerts, findings, anomalies, and security requests; identify root causes; drive remediation; document outcomes.
• Participate in security-on-call rotation; respond to incidents, triage alerts, support vulnerability workflows, complete access reviews, and handle escalations.
• Build and maintain production-quality tooling to reduce manual work: alert enrichment, automated triage, remediation workflows, and access-review automation.
• Lead focused investigations into suspected security events or compromises, gathering evidence and coordinating response.
• Identify recurring sources of toil and engineer durable solutions to improve speed and scale.
• Partner with product and engineering to assess risks and make practical security tradeoffs to deliver quickly with quality and soundness.

Skills

Security engineer

Python

Go

Ruby

Incident response

Detection engineering

Cloud security

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure through hands-on investigation, on-call rotation, and building production-grade tooling. You will partner with engineering, security, and product teams to detect threats and automate responses across cloud environments.

The ideal candidate has strong Python/Go/Ruby skills, experience with AWS or GCP, and a proactive, independent approach to solving complex security problems in a fast-paced startup setting.