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Staff Security Automation Engineer

Test Automation Engineer • Principal • Remote • Full-time European Union EU/EMEA

Staff-level security engineering role focused on building automation, tooling, and log pipelines that let a lean security team cover a large and growing attack surface at a debt-relief fintech.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own security log pipelines: extract logs from source systems, transform and enrich them, and deliver them into the SIEM
  • Operate and improve the SIEM: onboard new sources, build and tune detections and alerts
  • Deploy and tune security controls across a fleet of managed macOS and Windows workstations and AWS WorkSpaces virtual desktops
  • Build internal tooling and automation that removes manual toil in triage and remediation, primarily in Python
  • Instrument the environment for security signal by integrating tooling through APIs and writing connective code
  • Establish secure defaults in Infrastructure as Code through reusable modules and policy as code
  • Build security into CI/CD: scanning, secrets detection, and policy-as-code gates
  • Own the reliability and coverage of the pipelines and tooling as a platform
  • Work directly in systems the team does not own: read the code or infrastructure, make changes safely, and get them through review

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on security engineering with a focus on automation, tooling, and instrumentation
  • Comfortable writing custom code and scripting, primarily in Python, to build tooling and log pipelines from scratch
  • Hands-on experience building and operating log pipelines end to end: collection, parsing, enrichment, and delivery into a SIEM
  • Hands-on SIEM experience: onboarding sources and building or tuning detections and alerts
  • Experience deploying and managing endpoint security across a mixed fleet of macOS and Windows workstations, including virtual desktops

Soft skills

Hands-on ownership mindset — implements fixes rather than filing ticketsComfortable writing custom code rather than waiting on othersCollaboration across security engineering, SIEM, endpoint, CI/CD, and application and infrastructure teams

About the company

Beyond Finance's mission is to help everyday Americans escape the cycle of crippling debt through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, and customized financial solutions; the company has helped over 1 million clients.

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