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Security Automation Engineer
Company | Vercel |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $200000 – $285000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Experience building automation tooling for security or developer efficiency.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, JavaScript, or Bash) and familiarity with a compiled language (Go, Rust, or Java).
- Experience with GitHub automation and API integrations.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how to integrate security into development workflows.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code security best practices and automation techniques.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain security automation tooling to enhance visibility, enforce security best practices, and streamline processes.
- Automate secure design reviews and integrate security checks into pull request workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build and manage security operations automation, including data pipelines, SOAR workflows, and log aggregation for improved threat detection.
- Collaborate with development and security teams to ensure seamless adoption of security automation.
- Continuously refine automation strategies to optimize security effectiveness and reduce manual overhead.
- Support on-going vulnerability management efforts to ensure proper attack surface management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Have experience with security policy-as-code frameworks.
- Have worked on integrating security controls into developer workflows at scale.
- Have experience with modern cloud-native security tooling and practices.