
Senior Automation Engineer
Deepwatch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Tampa • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $178,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain hands-on integrations between the SOAR platform and enterprise systems, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewalls, vulnerability management, email security, and cloud platforms
- Develop and maintain production-quality code, services, and automation workflows using Python
- Implement and evolve automated workflows and playbooks that support security operations use cases, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Partner with security analysts and domain experts to gather requirements and implement solutions, without serving as an on-call incident responder or SOC analyst
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across SOAR workflows, integrations, and supporting services, owning problems through to resolution
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions related to automation frameworks, integration patterns, and platform capabilities
- Participate in testing, validation, and deployment activities for new integrations, features, and platform enhancements
- Apply software engineering best practices, including version control, code review, testing, and documentation
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and implementation guides to support ongoing operations and future development
- Continuously assess and improve automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve operational consistency
Requirements
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Python and/or Java
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining automation-heavy systems or integration platforms in production environments
- Solid understanding of DevOps and/or SRE practices, including CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and operational ownership
- Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows
- Experience building and integrating APIs, services, and event-driven workflows across distributed systems
- Ability to work effectively with security and non-security subject matter experts to translate requirements into technical implementations
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating in ambiguous, engineering-driven environments
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, platform, and security teams
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off (FTO), 11 company holidays, sick leave and 8-Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Unique professional development benefits, starting at $3,000 annually
- Wellness contests and monthly educational programs
- 401(K) retirement program
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaautomation workflowsproduction-quality codeAPI integrationevent-driven workflowsDevOps practicesSRE practicesCI/CDversion control
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationrequirements gatheringoperational ownershipadaptabilitytechnical documentationdesign decision makingtroubleshootingscalability focus