Security Engineer- Corporate Information Security- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

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

Role overview

Help protect an organization’s internal systems, people, and data by investigating alerts, hunting for threats, and improving detection and response. The security operations team is building an automation-forward practice, so this engineer will combine practical incident analysis with scripting and careful use of AI coding tools. The role also contributes to repeatable detections and response procedures.

Responsibilities

• Triage and prioritize security events, identify root causes, and resolve or *escalate* incidents.
• Hunt proactively for adversary activity and build or 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.

Requirements

• Relevant experience supported by one of the listed education paths: high school diploma plus five years’ experience, bachelor’s degree plus two years, or a master’s degree.
• Experience triaging events with technical accuracy, root-cause analysis, and timely escalation.
• Understanding of attack methods, common vectors, TCP/IP and networking fundamentals, and authentication and authorization.
• Hands-on experience building automation or tooling with LLMs or AI agents, applying them thoughtfully and safely.
• Scripting ability, such as Python, applied to security operations or workflow automation.
• Interest in using emerging technology to improve security work and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Incident handling certifications such as GCIH or GCFA.
• Experience with EDR, SIEM, DLP, or related security tools.
• Familiarity with agentic coding assistants.

Benefits and work setup

Remote role for candidates based in the United States; travel may be up to 5%.

• medical and dental plan options
• flexible time off
• 12 company holidays
• phone and home internet allowances
• retirement plan access
• an optional pet benefit.