Staff SecOps Engineer – Cloud Security & Automation (Remote)

Synthesia; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

100% Medical, Dental & Vision

401k Plan

Paid parental leave

25 days annual leave + holidays + sick

Job summary

Synthesia is seeking a Security Engineer (L6) to join the Infosec Security Operations team. The role focuses on building production-grade security improvements across cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes), implementing detection and response capabilities, and developing tooling to reduce toil and improve security.

You will report to the Head of Security and contribute to incident response, automation, and secure-by-default platform patterns in a fast-growing SaaS startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment.
• Deep technical security engineer with ability to move from idea to production in Cloud Infra / DevOps systems.
• Experience in cloud security engineering in AWS and/or GCP, with hands-on improvements (IAM, networking, compute, storage, logging).
• Strong programming/scripting ability (Python or similar) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Build and own security improvements across Cloud Infrastructures (AWS/GCP) and related territory; ship production changes when needed.
• Design, implement, and iterate on detection and response capabilities (SIEM, EDR/MDR, CNAPP) with automation focus.
• Hunt, investigate, and respond to security alerts end-to-end (triage → containment → eradication → recovery → learnings).
• Build internal security tooling and automations (IaC, scripts, integrations) to reduce toil and raise security default.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

Python scripting

DevOps security

Incident response

Kubernetes security

Automation

Terraform

Tools

CrowdStrike

Terraform

GitHub

Job description

Synthesia is seeking a Security Engineer (L6) to join the Infosec Security Operations team. The role focuses on building production-grade security improvements across cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes), implementing detection and response capabilities, and developing tooling to reduce toil and improve security.

You will report to the Head of Security and contribute to incident response, automation, and secure-by-default platform patterns in a fast-growing SaaS startup.