This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Security Engineer based in India.
Join a forward-thinking engineering environment where cybersecurity, automation, and artificial intelligence converge to transform modern security operations. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will design and develop scalable security automation solutions that streamline SOC workflows, strengthen incident response, and improve operational efficiency. You will build reusable integrations, connectors, and playbooks across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence platforms. You will also explore AI and large language model (LLM) capabilities to enable intelligent investigations, automated decision-making, and next-generation security workflows. Working closely with product, sales engineering, and professional services teams, you will turn customer requirements and proof-of-concepts into reliable, production-ready solutions. This remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced engineer passionate about software development, cybersecurity innovation, and building automation capabilities that scale across diverse customer environments.
- Security Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain reusable security automation components, connectors, integrations, and playbooks that improve the efficiency and consistency of security operations.
- SOC Workflow Optimization: Build scalable automation solutions for incident response, threat investigation, alert triage, enrichment, and other security operations workflows.
- Production-Ready Engineering: Translate customer requirements, real-world use cases, and technical proof-of-concepts into reliable, maintainable, production-grade security automation solutions.
- Security Platform Integration: Develop and maintain integrations with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence platforms to enable seamless communication and data exchange across security tools.
- Automation Framework Development: Create modular automation frameworks that can be deployed across diverse customer environments, ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
- AI and LLM Integration: Incorporate artificial intelligence and large language models into security workflows to support intelligent analysis, automated investigations, and improved security decision-making.
- Agentic Security Workflows: Explore and implement AI-powered investigation and response capabilities, combining traditional rule-based automation with AI-driven reasoning where appropriate.
- Reliability and Security Validation: Implement suitable testing, validation, and safeguards to ensure automation components and AI-enabled workflows are secure, accurate, and dependable.
- Software Engineering Best Practices: Apply code reviews, testing, documentation, version control, and performance optimization to maintain high standards of software quality.
- Content Library Management: Maintain and enhance a reusable security automation content library used across customer environments, improving deployment consistency and operational usability.
- Troubleshooting and Continuous Improvement: Diagnose integration and automation issues, implement long-term fixes, and identify opportunities to improve performance and prevent recurring problems.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales Engineering, Professional Services, and Product teams to understand customer requirements, support technical proof-of-concepts, and improve solution delivery.
- Customer-Driven Innovation: Incorporate customer feedback into automation development and product improvements, helping expand reusable security capabilities and strengthen the customer experience.
Requirements
- Professional Experience: Demonstrated experience in security engineering, cybersecurity automation, security software development, or a related technical discipline, with strong engineering expertise appropriate for a senior-level role.
- Programming Skills: Strong hands-on programming experience in Python, with JavaScript experience also valuable for automation and integration development.
- SOAR Expertise: Practical understanding of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platforms, including the design, development, and implementation of automated security workflows.
- Playbook Development: Experience building and maintaining security playbooks for incident response, threat investigation, alert triage, enrichment, and operational automation.
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Solid understanding of security operations, threat detection, incident response, and the tools used to protect enterprise environments.
- Security Platform Knowledge: Practical familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence platforms, including their integration and operational use.
- Software Engineering Principles: Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, testing methodologies, maintainable code, version control, and performance optimization.
- Automation and Integration: Ability to develop reliable integrations between security tools and transform complex technical requirements into scalable, production-ready automation solutions.
- APIs and Connectivity: Familiarity with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication mechanisms, and third-party system integrations.
- AI and Generative AI: Understanding of AI, LLMs, generative AI, agentic workflows, and AI-powered automation frameworks, including their potential applications in security operations.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate complex technical challenges and design efficient, scalable solutions.
- Ownership and Collaboration: A proactive, accountable approach to engineering work, with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and customer-facing teams.
- Adaptability: Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, product-focused engineering environment while balancing technical quality, customer requirements, and delivery timelines.
- Preferred: Experience developing reusable security automation content for multiple customer environments.
- Preferred: Experience integrating EDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence solutions.
- Preferred: Familiarity with SOC operations, incident response processes, and threat engineering.
- Preferred: Knowledge of JavaScript for automation and integration development.
- Preferred: Practical experience applying generative AI, LLMs, or agentic workflows to security investigations and automated response processes.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: Advertised annual salary range of INR 12 lakh to INR 45 lakh (₹12–45 LPA), depending on experience and suitability.
- Remote work: Work remotely from India, offering flexibility in your working environment.
- Full-time employment: Opportunity to join a product-focused engineering team in a full-time capacity.
- Advanced technology exposure: Hands-on experience with security automation, SIEM/SOAR ecosystems, AI-powered workflows, and emerging cybersecurity technologies.
- Technical ownership: Opportunities to design reusable automation frameworks and influence the development of production-grade security solutions.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work with product, sales engineering, and professional services teams to solve real-world customer challenges.
- Professional development: Opportunities to deepen expertise in cybersecurity engineering, Python development, AI-enabled security operations, and enterprise integrations.
- Customer impact: Contribute to solutions designed to improve security operations, accelerate incident response, and support multiple customer environments.
