--- title: 'Security Operations Engineer at CircleCI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/security-operations-engineer-circleci-ontario-mxr3yqxevyck' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-15' --- # Security Operations Engineer at CircleCI - **Company:** CircleCI - **Location:** Ontario, Canada - **Compensation:** $128k–$160k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15 - **Apply:** http://www.circleci.com/careers/jobs/8790022002/?gh_jid=8790022002 ## Job description Security Operations Engineer ## About the Team The Security Operations team plays a critical role in protecting CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data against an evolving threat landscape. From incident response to hardening our cloud and CI/CD environments, the team works closely with engineering to keep CircleCI secure, resilient, and ready for what’s next. ## About the Role As a Security Operations Engineer, you’ll play a key role in protecting CircleCI’s infrastructure, product, and customer data against an evolving threat landscape increasingly shaped by AI-driven attacks and AI-augmented defenses. This intermediate-level role offers the opportunity to take meaningful ownership of security challenges, work closely with Engineering as a trusted security partner, and expand your impact across the organization. You’ll contribute to our security roadmap while leveraging AI tooling to advance how we detect, respond to, and automate security threats across CircleCI. What You’ll Do: Threat Detection & Incident Response - Monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats across CircleCI’s cloud and application environments, using security and AI-assisted tooling to improve detection and triage. - Participate in security risk assessments, incident response, post-incident reviews, and rotating on-call support, turning findings into stronger controls and processes. Security Engineering & Architecture - Build and maintain security tooling, controls, and automation across cloud, application, and CI/CD environments, following established security patterns and best practices. - Identify vulnerabilities and configuration risks, contribute to security runbooks and compliance requirements, and develop a growing understanding of CircleCI’s security architecture. AI & Security - Incorporate AI-powered security tools into day-to-day workflows and help evaluate emerging technologies that can improve detection, response, and automation. - Stay current on AI-specific security threats and contribute to responsible approaches for using AI in security operations. Cross-Team Partnership & Ownership - Partner with Engineering teams to understand security needs, provide practical guidance, and translate technical risks into clear, actionable recommendations. - Contribute to security roadmap planning, technology evaluations, and team documentation while building strong relationships across Security and Engineering. What You’ll Bring: - 3+ years of security engineering or security operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated expertise. - Hands-on experience with cloud, application, and CI/CD security, ideally in AWS, GCP, or Azure environments. - Experience with security incident response and common security tooling, including EDR, CNAPP, SASE, vulnerability scanners, and log analysis. - Ability to build and maintain security automation and tooling, with experience in languages or technologies such as Go, Python, or Terraform. - Strong security judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, make recommendations, and take action when information is incomplete. - Hands-on experience using AI/ML-powered security tools in a production environment, with an understanding of where AI can improve security workflows and where human judgment remains essential. Bonus Skills (Nice to Have) - Familiarity with AI-specific threat categories (prompt injection, model supply chain risks, LLM abuse patterns). - Experience securing developer platforms, SaaS environments, or CI/CD infrastructure. - Relevant certifications: CEH, AWS Security Specialty, Security+, or equivalent. - Contributions to team process improvement, security runbook development, or internal knowledge sharing. Canada Base Pay Range $127,500—$159,500 CAD We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. ## About CircleCI CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital. CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. ## About CircleCI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: CircleCI provides a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that enables software teams to automate their build, test, and deployment processes with AI-powered intelligence. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a globally distributed workforce across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, and Japan) - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner ## Core Business - Primary industry: DevOps and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) Platform - Target customers: B2B, serving engineering teams from startups to the Fortune 500, including software engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers - Mission: To manage change so software teams can innovate faster — enabling engineers to deliver high-quality products reliably and efficiently ## Products & Services - **CircleCI CI/CD Platform**: A cloud-based and on-premise continuous integration and delivery service that automates the building, testing, and deployment of software. The core offering includes intelligent test splitting, parallel execution, and support for Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows environments. - **AI-Powered Agentic CI/CD**: A new generation of the platform featuring autonomous validation, AI agents that diagnose and fix pipeline failures, rollback pipelines for safe recovery, and model evaluation for LLM applications. This includes the CircleCI MCP Server to connect AI tools (like Claude Code) to pipeline data. - **Platform Toolkit**: A set of tools and policies (including no-think CI/CD, golden paths, and policy enforcement) designed to help platform engineers standardize best practices at scale across their organizations. - **Orbs**: Reusable, shareable packages of configuration (YAML) that simplify and streamline CI/CD setup for common deployment targets (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, etc.) and tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Over 2 million developers use the platform. The platform has achieved 97% faster test runs. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Top Tier Capital Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners (from the $100M Series F raised in 2021). Key technology partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and major VCS providers like GitHub and GitLab. - **Growth Signals**: Forbes named CircleCI to "America’s Best Startup Employers" list. The company is actively investing in AI-native features (autonomous agents, MCP integration) and has launched a new CLI and a redesigned Pipelines page. Headcount continues to grow with active hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Agent-Powered Automation**: A first-to-market move into "autonomous validation" and AI-agent-driven CI/CD, distinguishing CircleCI from traditional, purely script-based CI/CD tools. - **Enterprise-Grade Scale & Trust**: Built to handle the demands of large, complex organizations with rigorous security, compliance, and policy enforcement needs — a critical moat against simpler, less mature alternatives. - **Multi-Platform & Hybrid Cloud Support**: Supports the widest range of environments (Linux, macOS, Android, Windows) in both cloud and self-hosted (on-prem) configurations, giving enterprises flexibility. - **Developer Experience Focus**: Features like Smarter Testing, Chunk testing, and the new Pipelines page emphasize a frictionless, high-velocity developer experience, which drives adoption within engineering teams. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Native CI/CD**: The company's roadmap is heavily centered on "AI speed." The focus is on integrating AI agents directly into the pipeline (for diagnosis, rollback, and even prompt engineering), making the platform autonomous and "no-think" for developers. - **Platform Engineering & Standardization**: Empowering platform teams to define golden paths and enforce policies, balancing developer velocity with organizational control and safety. - **Expanding the Ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and AI tooling (MCP Server, LLM app support) to become the default CI/CD layer for the AI era. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Flexibility**: CircleCI operates on a hybrid model (office-from-home flexibility) designed to balance collaboration with personal productivity. The culture is built on guiding principles: "Learn fast," "Own the outcome," "Understand the problem," "Do our best work," and "Think like the customer." - **Professional Development**: Employees have access to comprehensive training programs, leadership development opportunities, and a clear focus on career pathing (e.g., redesigned engineering career paths). - **Community & Inclusion**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) include Circle[SHE]i (women and allies), The Onyx Circle (Black employees and allies), CircleAPI (Asian voices), Circle-Sí-I (Latino/LatinX), CircleMinds (neurodiversity), Queer Sphere (LGBTQIA+), and CircleGI (Veterans). - **Benefits & Perks**: Comprehensive benefits package including generous PTO, holistic mental health support, and global health and wellness coverage. ## Sources 1. [circleci.com](https://circleci.com/) — Official website with product overview, brand positioning, and "Join 2mil+ devs" tagline 2. [circleci.com/careers](https://circleci.com/careers/) — Careers page with mission, culture, guiding principles, ERG descriptions, and benefits information 3. [circleci.com/about](https://circleci.com/about/) — About page with leadership team (CEO Jim Rose, CTO Rob Zuber, CFO Chitra Balasubramanian, etc.), company history (founded 2011 in San Francisco), and values 4. [linkedin.com/company/circleci](https://www.linkedin.com/company/circleci) — LinkedIn company page with open positions (10 current job listings including Software Engineer, PM, Product Designer) 5. [circleci.com/docs](https://circleci.com/docs/guides/about-circleci/about-circleci/) — Official documentation providing technical overview, CI/CD definitions, supported platforms (Linux, macOS, Android, Windows), and deployment targets (AWS S3, EC2, GCP, Azure, Heroku, Firebase) ## Other roles at CircleCI - [Strategic Client Account Executive, APAC](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-client-account-executive-apac-circleci-tokyo-abrecqhndnzt) — Tokyo, Japan - [Senior Accountant](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-accountant-circleci-san-francisco-pt3eg8pgnzrd) — San Francisco, CA - [Digital Customer Success Program Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/digital-customer-success-program-manager-circleci-san-francisco-4nrpgmeg1vr8) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior GTM Strategy & Operations Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-gtm-strategy-operations-manager-circleci-san-francisco-snrj9qf533hs) — San Francisco, CA - [Sales Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-manager-circleci-san-francisco-9kp9v1bxv0sb) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-circleci-ontario-c7sxvxgjq1sd) — Ontario, Canada - [Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-circleci-toronto-5n8cjndvxfn2) — Toronto, Canada - [Strategic Account Executive, NAMER](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-account-executive-namer-circleci-remote-8trx8paq4a0p) - [Strategic Account Executive, NAMER](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-account-executive-namer-circleci-san-francisco-0wz6fvscxtdh) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Solutions Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-solutions-engineer-circleci-san-francisco-california-united-states-london-yhnnw19msm43) — San Francisco California United States London, United Kingdom