# Security Operations Engineer

**Company:** [Front](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/front)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Incident Response, security operations, detection engineering, SIEM, edr, IAM, Cloud Security, log querying, alert tuning, security automation, threat detection, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Protects the company’s customers, employees, and platform by leading incident response, improving detection coverage, automating security operations, and hardening cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS environments. Requires 5+ years of security operations or related experience and strong cross-functional communication.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end security incident response, including triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident learnings.
- Build and continuously improve detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS systems.
- Develop security automation and workflows to reduce manual toil and improve response speed.
- Lead investigations into suspicious activity, account compromise, and potential data exposure events.
- Partner with Engineering and IT to harden systems, improve logging and telemetry, and close recurring control gaps.
- Drive readiness through tabletop exercises, runbooks, metrics, and operational reviews.
- Manage and tune security tooling, including SIEM, EDR, IAM, and alerting platforms, to reduce noise and increase fidelity.
- Communicate clearly during high-severity situations, aligning stakeholders on impact, status, and next steps.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, or similar security roles.
- Strong understanding of attacker techniques and defensive strategies across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network surfaces.
- Hands-on experience with SIEMs, EDR platforms, and investigation workflows, including log querying and alert tuning.
- Ability to use AI tools to streamline security operations and response.
- Experience building incident response processes, playbooks, and operational metrics that scale with company growth.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Engineering and IT partners without relying on authority.
- Calm, structured decision-making under pressure, with strong written incident communication.
- Ability to use AI tools to accelerate investigations through summarization, clustering, and query generation while validating outputs and protecting sensitive data.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range of $180,000–$260,000.
- Option to work from the San Francisco office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; in-office attendance is not required.

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