Apollo GraphQL

Security Operations Engineer

Apollo GraphQL

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $200,000 per year

About the role

  • Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership
  • Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks
  • Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits
  • Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise
  • Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response
  • Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features
  • Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
  • Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
  • Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
  • Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
  • Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
  • Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
  • Nice to have: Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
  • Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
  • Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
Benefits
  • Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans
  • California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans
  • Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
security operationsincident responsecloud-native environmentsSOC 2ISO 27001security toolingSIEMSOARthreat huntingdetection engineering
Soft Skills
leadershipcoordinationinfluencingcommunication