# Security Operations Engineer II

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $134k – $186k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Incident Response, threat hunting, Python, AWS, soar, Git, log analysis, detection engineering, Infrastructure As Code, threat intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Security Operations Engineer responsible for building automated response mechanisms, triaging alerts, threat hunting, and enhancing detection platforms using AI and SOAR. Requires 2+ years in incident detection/response, strong log querying, Python proficiency, and a breach-assume mindset.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work closely with system owners to ingest new log feeds for security monitoring
- Enhance and maintain our Detection and Response platforms
- Build in workflows with AI analysis to automatically investigate and triage issues
- Be on the frontlines of Incident Response, actively investigating issues and protecting Upstart
- Build common response workflows to expedite investigation and response using AI and SOAR Technology
- Triage and respond to critical alerts
- Hunt for threats in the environment
- Help build our security data lake
- Monitor and actively defend our corporate and product infrastructure
- Share in the team’s responsibility for Incident Response process

## Minimum Qualifications
- 2 years of Incident Detection and Response Engineering experience
- Assume breach mindset, chasing down all threads to completion
- Strong Log-fu (ability to build robust log search queries)
- Solid Proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python)
- Strong Git experience (rebasing doesn't scare you!)

## Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Experience & Infra as Code management of resources
- OSX Endpoint Investigation Experience
- Internal Application Development Experience
- SaaS Application security experience
- Experience in a high-security environment
- Experience with managing Threat Intelligence
- 3+ years of Incident Detection and Response Engineering experience

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