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Vailexa

Senior Security Operations Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
Not stated
Employment
Not stated
Level
Senior
Function
Security
Pay
Not stated
Posted
2 months ago

About the role

Build More Than Just a Career. Build Your Future.

At Vailexa, we’re not just hiring — we’re building thinkers, creators, and future leaders.

We believe in giving people the space to grow, the freedom to think, and the opportunity to create real impact from day one. If you’re someone who wants to learn fast, take ownership, and grow beyond limits, you’ll feel right at home here.

This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, can move quickly from signal to action, and enjoys building durable systems and playbooks — not just fighting fires. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, IT, Legal, and Business leaders to reduce risk, respond to incidents, and continuously raise the security bar across the company.

What will you be doing?

  • 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/telemetry, and close recurring control gaps.
  • Drive readiness through tabletop exercises, runbooks, metrics, and operational reviews.
  • Manage security tooling configuration and tuning (SIEM, EDR, IAM, alerting) to reduce noise and increase fidelity.
  • Communicate clearly during high-severity situations, aligning stakeholders on impact, status, and next steps.

What skills and experience do you need?

  • 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 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.
  • AI fluency: ability to use AI tools to accelerate investigations (summarization, clustering, query generation) while validating outputs and protecting sensitive data.

Ready to take the next step?

If you’re excited about this role and ready to grow with a team that values ambition, ideas, and impact — we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Apply now and start building your journey with Vailexa.

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Posted by Vailexa on their own hiring page, job-boards.greenhouse.io. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 06:15 UTC; the original is the reference.

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