Hiring: SecOps Security Engineer (Staff-level, L6) Company: Synthesia Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 15:28:41 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Datadog, GCP, GitHub, IAM, IaC, Kubernetes, Okta, Python, SIEM, SaaS, Stripe, Terraform About the job Experience: •5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment. Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •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 •We Would Expect You To Have Experience In 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 Compensation: •$150,000 - $200,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!