What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Security Automation Engineer position at ID.me?
Role Overview
ID.me is seeking a Principal Security Automation Engineer to lead the development, integration, and optimization of security automation across our cloud and DevSecOps environments. This mastery-level role requires deep expertise in security engineering, scripting, tool integration, and DevSecOps best practices, with a secondary focus on incident response for cloud and web application security.
As the highest-level security automation expert, you will design, build, and optimize automated security workflows, custom tooling, and security orchestration solutions to enhance ID.me’s ability to detect, respond to, and mitigate security threats efficiently. Your expertise in coding (Python, Go, Bash), API integration, and security automation platforms (SOAR, XDR, SIEM, cloud-native tools) will drive security innovation and operational efficiency.
Beyond automation engineering, you will collaborate with SOC, Threat Intelligence, and DevOps teams to ensure that incident response playbooks, security tooling, and cloud security controls are seamlessly integrated into CI / CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.
Responsibilities
Security Automation & Tool Integration
- Develop, integrate, and optimize security automation workflows to enhance detection, response, and remediation efficiency.
- Build custom security tools and scripts using Python, Go, Bash, and APIs to improve security operations.
- Automate repetitive security tasks, including threat intelligence ingestion, alert triage, IOC enrichment, vulnerability management, and remediation tracking.
- Integrate security tools into CI / CD pipelines, ensuring SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM scanning, and infrastructure-as-code security are fully automated.
- Develop custom detection rules and response automations for SOAR, XDR, SIEM (Chronicle, Splunk), and cloud-native security platforms.
- Work closely with DevOps and Engineering teams to embed secure-by-design automation into application and infrastructure deployments.
- Optimize IAM, secrets management, and API security automation, ensuring strong access controls and cloud security posture management.
- Continuously evaluate and implement new security automation technologies to enhance scalability, efficiency, and real-time security response.
Incident Response & Cloud Security
DevSecOps & Continuous Security Improvement
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Ideal Candidate Will Thrive In Our Culture
Candidates must be located in the continental U.S. and available to work on site at McLean VA or Mountain View CA.
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The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.
ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.
The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.
U.S. Pay Range
203,183 — $255,000 USD
Mountain View, CA Pay Range
241,098 — $278,738 USD
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Salary : $203,183 - $255,000
