Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations

Job overview

The Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations role is onsite in Austin, TX. The listed salary range for other U.S. locations is $167,400–$193,200 per year; the Austin location falls under that range. GoodLeap develops financing and software products for sustainable home solutions and supports a platform used by homeowners and industry professionals. The engineer protects cloud environments, applications, endpoints, and corporate systems through detection engineering, incident response, and security tooling. The role also builds automation and AI agents, monitors enterprise AI activity, and partners with engineering, IT, and compliance teams to strengthen security operations.

What you'll do

• Build and tune detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, and email telemetry
• manage logging, SIEM, and alerting pipelines
• monitor AI tools, agents, integrations, and API keys
• lead incident investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery
• maintain response plans and runbooks
• manage security tools including cloud monitoring, WAF, DDoS protection, IDS, EDR, and email security
• build AI agents and automation for triage and response
• review vulnerability and penetration-test findings
• advise on AWS security
• mentor security and partner engineering teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff security engineer

security operations

austin tx

goodleap

$167,400–$193,200/year

detection engineering

incident response

aws security

siem

crowdstrike edr

ai agents

security automation

mitre att&ck

cloud security

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Focus includes detection-as-code mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, AWS cloud security, CrowdStrike EDR, email security, Python or similar automation, and LLM-based agents. The posting lists a separate higher pay range for CA, WA, NJ, MA, DC, and NYC.

About the employer

GoodLeap is hiring for this role. Industry: Real Estate Credit. Sector: 52.