SmarterDx
Senior Security Engineer
$190K–$230K
Remote (United States) +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Remote (United States)
Remote - Experience
- 4+ years in security engineering.
About the job
Own detection engineering and security operations, including SIEM coverage, alert investigations, cloud security operations, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Write, tune, and maintain SIEM detections; manage log sources and detection quality.
- Investigate alerts, support incident response, and operate cloud security controls in AWS.
- Improve GitHub security controls and automation, write runbooks, and contribute to security reviews and vulnerability management.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in security engineering, with hands-on AWS and cloud-native infrastructure experience.
- Direct experience writing and tuning detections in a modern SIEM and investigating security alerts from raw logs.
- Ability to independently deliver medium-complexity security work; code fluency in Python or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, AWS Config, AWS network security fundamentals, and Terraform.
Nice to have
- Startup experience, especially in health tech or another regulated, data-sensitive environment.
- Incident-response experience or interest; deeper network security, Kubernetes (EKS), container security, or AI and agentic security exposure.
Pay
$190,000 to $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Postgres, Panther (SIEM), GuardDuty, AWS Config, Wiz
AI focus
Interest in AI and agentic security; security automation and tooling support AI and agentic tooling used across engineering.
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