Security Operations Engineer

CircleCI
Toronto
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 127,500 - 159,500 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Security judgment","Problem-solving","Ownership","Cross-team collaboration","Risk assessment"]

Protect CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data by monitoring, investigating, and responding to security threats across cloud and application environments. Build and maintain security tooling, automation, and runbooks across cloud, application, and CI/CD systems. Partner with Engineering to translate risks into actionable guidance and contribute to the security roadmap. Incorporate AI-powered security tools to improve detection, response, and automation while applying strong security judgment.

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Security Operations Engineer

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Job Summary

Protect CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data by monitoring, investigating, and responding to security threats across cloud and application environments. Build and maintain security tooling, automation, and runbooks across cloud, application, and CI/CD systems. Partner with Engineering to translate risks into actionable guidance and contribute to the security roadmap. Incorporate AI-powered security tools to improve detection, response, and automation while applying strong security judgment.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats across CircleCI’s cloud and application environments using security and AI-assisted tooling.
  • •Participate in security risk assessments, incident response, post-incident reviews, and rotating on-call support to strengthen controls and processes.
  • •Build and maintain security tooling, controls, and automation across cloud, application, and CI/CD environments following best practices.
  • •Identify vulnerabilities and configuration risks, contribute to security runbooks and compliance requirements, and develop understanding of CircleCI’s security architecture.
  • •Incorporate AI-powered security tools into daily workflows and partner with Engineering to translate technical risks into actionable recommendations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 127,500 - 159,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of security engineering or security operations experience (or equivalent).
  • •Hands-on experience with cloud, application, and CI/CD security, ideally in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • •Experience with incident response and security tooling such as EDR, CNAPP, SASE, vulnerability scanners, and log analysis.
  • •Ability to build and maintain security automation and tooling using technologies such as Go, Python, or Terraform.
  • •Hands-on experience using AI/ML-powered security tools in production, with understanding of where human judgment remains essential.
Experience:3+ yearsCloud securityCI/CD securityIncident responseAI/ML security
Skills:Security judgmentProblem-solvingOwnershipCross-team collaborationRisk assessment
Certifications:CEHAWS Security SpecialtySecurity+
Languages:En
Tech Stack:AWSGCPAzureEDRCNAPPSASEVulnerability scannersLog analysisGoPythonTerraformAI/MLSecurity toolingCI/CD

Company Brief

CircleCI
Provides a cloud-native continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates software build, test, and deployment pipelines to help engineering teams ship code faster and more reliably.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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