[Hiring] Security Engineer @Cyera

Role Description

Join our team as a Security Engineer working within an agentic SOC environment. This role is designed for someone who is ready to grow beyond traditional analyst responsibilities and move deeper into security engineering, automation, cloud security, detection engineering, and AI-assisted security operations.

You will help build, operate, and improve a modern SOC that uses automation, agentic workflows, AI-assisted investigation, and security engineering practices to improve detection, triage, response, and overall security visibility. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, improving systems, and building security capabilities rather than only monitoring alerts.

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years of cybersecurity experience, a strong SOC foundation, hands-on AWS knowledge, Python proficiency, and experience working with SIEM data and log pipelines. We are looking for someone motivated, curious, and eager to grow into a stronger security engineer within a modern, engineering-driven SOC model.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve security workflows, integrations, detection processes, and operational tooling within an agentic SOC.
• Work with automation, AI-assisted workflows, and agent-based capabilities that support alert triage, investigation, enrichment, and response.
• Help design, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot log ingestion flows into the SIEM from AWS, applications, infrastructure, endpoint tools, and security platforms.
• Create, tune, and maintain detection rules, alert logic, dashboards, playbooks, and investigation workflows.
• Develop Python scripts and automations for alert enrichment, data processing, reporting, workflow improvement, and security operations support.
• Support cloud security logging, monitoring, IAM reviews, and cloud detection use cases.
• Review, analyze, and correlate security alerts and logs to identify suspicious activity and support investigations.
• Assist with security event investigations, escalation, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements.
• Help improve SOC processes, playbooks, detection coverage, documentation, and response workflows.
• Partner with security, cloud, IT, and engineering teams to improve visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen security operations.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, security engineering, cloud security, detection engineering, or incident response.
• Working knowledge of AWS services, cloud security fundamentals, logging, monitoring, IAM, and basic cloud architecture.
• AWS entry-level certification required at minimum, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Security Specialty is a plus.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python for scripting, automation, data processing, security tooling, or workflow development.
• Experience working with SIEM platforms, including log ingestion, parsing, alerting, dashboards, and detection logic.
• Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting log flows from applications, infrastructure, AWS services, endpoint tools, or security platforms into a SIEM.
• Strong understanding of SOC workflows, alert triage, investigation, escalation, and incident response processes.
• Ability to help develop, tune, and improve detections based on logs, threat behavior, and operational needs.
• Familiarity with agentic concepts, agentic frameworks, AI-assisted workflows, autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, and practical security operations use cases.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on exposure to LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted security operations.
• Experience with Sigma, SPL, KQL, SQL, YARA, or similar detection/query languages.
• Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar tools.

Compensation Information

Compensation Range: $80,000-$150,000. The range represents total compensation, and may include incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. This compensation range represents Cyera’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of posting, and Cyera may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. The final salary for this position will be determined in Cyera’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law, and based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the employee’s work experience, skills, and qualifications for the role, as well as the needs of Cyera’s business and other operational considerations. Final compensation will vary based on seniority and relevance of experience, location, and position requirements. This role may be eligible for potential merit increases based on factors such as individual or company performance, time in role, and other discretionary factors.

Benefits

• Ability to work remotely, with office setup reimbursement.
• Competitive salary.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Paid holidays and sick time.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life, short and long-term disability insurance.