Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Synthesia is an AI video platform for business. The Staff Security Engineer will join the Security Operations team to build technical security improvements across cloud infrastructure, develop detection and response capabilities, investigate incidents, and automate security operations.
Responsibilities
- Build and own deeply technical security improvements across our Cloud Infrastructure(s) and associated territory (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD), including shipping production changes yourself when needed
- Design, implement, and iterate on detection and response capabilities (SIEM, EDR/MDR, cloud-native detections, CNAPP) with an engineer’s bias for automation, reliability, and measurable outcomes
- Hunt, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspicious activity end-to-end (triage → containment → eradication → recovery → learnings), including writing tooling and detection logic to prevent recurrence
- Build internal security tooling and automations (IaC, scripts, integrations) that reduce toil and raise the security bar by default
Skills
- •Location: Remote (US East Coast/Central)•
- • You're a deeply technical security engineer with a builder/hacker mindset, able to go from idea → prototype → production and comfortable making changes directly in Cloud Infra / DevOps systems
- • You have 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment
- • Have worked in a fast-growing startup, scale-up and/or SaaS company
- • Cloud security engineering in AWS and/or GCP, with the ability to implement improvements hands-on (IAM, networking, compute, storage, logging)
- • Kubernetes security (cluster hardening, workload isolation, runtime security, policy controls) and container ecosystems
- • DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD security, secrets management, artifact integrity, and secure-by-default platform patterns
- • Incident response and investigation, including creating repeatable playbooks and automating response where appropriate
- • Strong programming/scripting ability (Python or similar) plus comfort with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and automation
- • Serious agent coding - ideally you're on the bleeding edge in the space
- • Endpoint security tooling, such as CrowdStrike
- Bonus points for: • Hands on experience with any/all of: Hunters, Wiz, Falcon, Tracebit, Torii, Okta, Google Workspace, StrongDM, Github, StepSecurity, Dope Security • Any relevant Information Security certification, e.g AWS Certified Security, GIAC GWEB, OSCP, or CSSLP
Benefits
- Stock options in our fast-growing Series E startup
- Remote-friendly environment
- 100% Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401k Plan
- Paid parental leave
- 25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave
- Fun culture with regular socials
- A generous referral scheme
- A brand new computer + monitor
- Budget and support for conference travel, community events, and content production
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