Synthesia
SecOps Security Engineer (Staff-level, L6)
$150K–$200K
US Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience; ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment.
About the job
Build and operate security improvements, detection and response capabilities, and automation across Synthesia’s cloud infrastructure and security operations.
What you'll do
- Develop and ship security improvements across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems.
- Design and improve detection and response capabilities, and investigate and respond to security incidents end-to-end.
- Build internal security tooling and automations to reduce operational toil and improve security.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
- Hands-on cloud security engineering in AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience with Kubernetes security, DevOps security, incident response, and investigation.
- Strong programming or scripting ability (Python or similar) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code and automation.
Nice to have
- Experience working in a fast-growing startup, scale-up, and/or SaaS company.
- Relevant Information Security certification, or hands-on experience with any listed security and identity tools.
Pay
$150K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python, Terraform, CrowdStrike
AI focus
Serious agent coding; ideally working at the bleeding edge of the space.
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