# Security Operations Engineer at CircleCI

- Company: CircleCI
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Ontario, Canada (Remote)
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Security
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply: http://www.circleci.com/careers/jobs/8790022002/?gh_jid=8790022002

## Description

Security Operations Engineer
 About the Team 
 The Security Operations team plays a critical role in protecting CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data against an evolving threat landscape. From incident response to hardening our cloud and CI/CD environments, the team works closely with engineering to keep CircleCI secure, resilient, and ready for what’s next.
 About the Role 
 As a Security Operations Engineer, you’ll play a key role in protecting CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data against an evolving threat landscape increasingly shaped by AI-driven attacks and AI-augmented defenses. This intermediate-level role offers the opportunity to take meaningful ownership of security challenges, work closely with Engineering as a trusted security partner, and expand your impact across the organization. You’ll contribute to our security roadmap while leveraging AI tooling to advance how we detect, respond to, and automate security threats across CircleCI.
 What You’ll Do: 
 Threat Detection & Incident Response 
• Monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats across CircleCI’s cloud and application environments, using security and AI-assisted tooling to improve detection and triage.
• Participate in security risk assessments, incident response, post-incident reviews, and rotating on-call support, turning findings into stronger controls and processes.
 Security Engineering & Architecture 
• Build and maintain security tooling, controls, and automation across cloud, application, and CI/CD environments, following established security patterns an

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