Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations

📋 Job Overview

The Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations is responsible for protecting GoodLeap’s cloud environments, applications, endpoints, and corporate systems through detection engineering, incident response, and security operations. This role builds and tunes detections, leads investigation and response for security incidents, and manages the security tooling that provides visibility across cloud, identity, endpoint, and email. The Staff Security Engineer will design and build AI agents and automation that reduce time-to-detect and time-to-respond, and will establish monitoring of AI activity across the enterprise, including AI tools, agents, and integrations used by employees and engineering teams. This role works closely with software engineers, infrastructure, IT, and compliance partners to ensure security controls are consistently applied and operationally effective.

🏢 About GoodLeap

GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.

GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.

🎯 The Role

The Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations is responsible for protecting GoodLeap’s cloud environments, applications, endpoints, and corporate systems through detection engineering, incident response, and security operations. This role builds and tunes detections, leads investigation and response for security incidents, and manages the security tooling that provides visibility across cloud, identity, endpoint, and email. The Staff Security Engineer will design and build AI agents and automation that reduce time-to-detect and time-to-respond, and will establish monitoring of AI activity across the enterprise, including AI tools, agents, and integrations used by employees and engineering teams. This role works closely with software engineers, infrastructure, IT, and compliance partners to ensure security controls are consistently applied and operationally effective.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and tune detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, and email telemetry using detection-as-code practices mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Manage security logging, SIEM, and alerting pipelines.
• Establish monitoring of AI activity, including AI tools, agents, MCP integrations, and API keys, to detect data exposure, misuse, and anomalous behavior.
• Reduce time-to-detect through applied threat intelligence and sensor enrichment.
• Lead investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery for security incidents.
• Serve as incident lead for significant events and coordinate with legal, compliance, and leadership on regulatory notification obligations.
• Maintain incident response plans, playbooks, and runbooks.
• Conduct tabletop exercises and post-incident reviews that drive lasting control improvements.
• Deploy and manage the security operations toolset, including cloud security monitoring, WAF, DDoS protection, IDS, EDR (CrowdStrike), and email security.
• Build AI agents and automation for alert triage, enrichment, investigation, and response.
• Review results from vulnerability scans, penetration testing, and other sources for true positives and propose remediation or mitigating controls.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on AWS cloud security and consult on the secure design of cloud-based systems.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to the security team and partner engineering teams on detection, response, and security operations practices.
• Share in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
• Help build the security team and lead efforts to mature GoodLeap’s security operations capability.

📌 Required Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Amazon AWS, including security configuration, logging, and tooling (e.g., CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub).
• Hands-on experience in detection engineering, including SIEM query languages and detection-as-code.
• Hands-on experience in incident response, including log analysis and host and cloud investigation.
• Familiar with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and OWASP Top 10.
• Knowledge of network and web related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS).
• Experience with, or ability to quickly ramp on, EDR platforms (CrowdStrike Falcon preferred).
• Experience with, or ability to quickly ramp on, email security (phishing, BEC, DMARC/SPF/DKIM).

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience building automation and AI agents for security operations.
• Experience with cloud security tools and services (e.g., AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail).
• Experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, ELK Stack).
• Experience with vulnerability management and penetration testing.
• Experience with security compliance and regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR).

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

U.S. work authorization required.