Staff Security Operations Engineer

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Life360Information Security
All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US)Full-TimeStaff
Salary149,000 - 271,500 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
8+ years
Required Skills
AWSPython

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on security operations or detection engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered security workflows in production.
  • Deep AWS experience including CloudTrail, IAM, and GuardDuty.
  • Identity-centric security expertise including Okta, SSO, and OAuth.
  • Proven experience owning the architecture and deployment of a detection platform end-to-end.
  • Experience building detection pipeline quality frameworks and measurement processes.
  • Capability to design and implement incident response processes from scratch.
  • Strong skills in writing production-grade, maintainable, and observable code.
  • Purple team orientation with hands-on threat hunting and investigation experience.
  • Strong technical communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and executive briefings.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap for detection and response including platform, architecture, and build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Build and mature the security observability platform across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and AI-native systems.
  • Deploy AI agents for triage, correlation, enrichment, and autonomous action on lower-criticality events.
  • Build AI-centered detection and response workflows with automated content testing and improvement.
  • Drive continuous validation of detection effectiveness and maintain precision metrics.
  • Own end-to-end incident response, including strategy, playbooks, and high-severity event leadership.
  • Make detection and response a design-time concern across Engineering, GRC, and Legal.
  • Lead, develop, and represent the team through code review, coaching, and external engagement.
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