Senior Security Engineer - Security Automation

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PagerDuty is seeking a Senior Security Engineer (Security Automation) to join our diverse, customer-focused team! As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a key contributor to leading security initiatives supporting the PagerDuty SaaS offerings through designing security tool implementations, security process improvements, and increasing security operational capacity through automation and orchestration. Since we own and operate what we build, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers across many product development teams.  You will work closely with our internal development teams to ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable, and scalable solutions to our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to build lovable security solutions that make developers and customers happy. The ideal candidate will come from a large enterprise environment focused on development of the Security Guardrails, Tool Integrations, and the SOAR space (Security, Orchestration, Automation and Response). Things that make you smile: Secure Infrastructure, systems, automation, analysis, coding, and cute animal memes.

PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tells us that co-located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.

This role is expected to come into our Atlanta office one day per month, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Embrace the role of hands-on engineer in implementing security automations, tool integrations, and security relevant alerting to support product and infrastructure guardrails, vulnerability management, and incident response activities.
• Mentor and help guide junior team members to scope upcoming projects and support agile approaches to work management.
• Foster a strong writing culture through creation of accurately scoped project charters and design documents. 
• Execute plans at the multi-team level while contributing to roadmap and annual planning discussions.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Product Development teams to build a robust vulnerability management program using automations and workflows to drive timely remediations, with focus on increasing visibility with reporting and metrics. 
• Work with loosely defined requirements where you exercise your analytical skills to clarify questions, share your approach, and collaborate with the rest of the team to build/test elegant solutions. 
• Participate in our team’s On-Call rotation, triaging and addressing security issues as they arise, and implement measures to prevent future occurrences.
• Monitor, support, and maintain 1st party and 3rd party security tools supporting guardrail implementations, compliance automation, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Partner with peer security teams to implement controls that detect and alert on deviations from established policies or standards.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience as a full-stack Security Engineer in a cloud-native, micro-service SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environment, preferably in AWS.
• 2+ years of experience integrating security testing into SDLC processes and securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building API-driven integrations favoring no code/low code solutions where feasible.
• Demonstrated experience building Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbooks.
• Ability to design, implement, monitor, and operate security logging and alerting toolsets.
• Technical stack experience required to be successful in this role:
• AWS Security (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, EKS/ECR, IAM family, Config), Vulnerability management (Qualys/Nessus, Wiz, Snyk), SIEM (SumoLogic or Splunk), Container Security, CI/CD Discipline (Helm, Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes (EKS)), Security Incident Response & Risk Management. 
• 3+ years of experience and proficiency in at least one programming language and framework (e.g. Python, Bash, Phoenix/Elixir, Java, Ruby on Rails). 
• Have exceptional written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Organizational skills with ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong appetite for challenging problems with a high degree of ownership.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Current or past experience with obtaining and maintaining FedRAMP authorization. 
• Experience working at a SaaS company larger than 1000 employees and 100M in revenue. 
• Ability to think through a complex problem, build a solution, and execute that solution with effective change management skills. 
• Possesses a strong sense of ownership and a keen discernment for excellence in security systems within a SaaS environment, demonstrating the ability to distinguish what constitutes a truly robust and effective safeguarding infrastructure.
• Working knowledge and experience with PagerDuty Incident Management and Process Automation products.
• Demonstrated history of mentoring and coaching.
• Familiarity with Corporate security needs and solutions, and ability to provide oversight and mentorship to the Corporate Security team to ensure alignment with CISO mandates.

The base salary range for this position is 152,000 - 248,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.