Security Operations Engineer

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation.

It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full‑time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues—if you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing.

Own the operational backbone of Detection & Response (D&R): intake, triage, investigation flow, reporting, and MDR oversight. This role is the connective tissue that keeps the function running smoothly across Detection & Observability, Response & Readiness, and external partners.

The mandate is operational efficiency. The candidate will redesign processes, write code to eliminate toil, and leverage AI to make the team faster. Every workflow touched should become simpler, more automated, and easier to execute.

This role operates autonomously, engages partners effectively, and ensures D&R delivers on its mission. D&R is structured around three capabilities:

• Detection & Observability:
  Ensures detections flow into operational processes
• Response & Readiness:
  Ensures investigations and incidents have clear handoffs
• Operations:
  Owns intake, triage, reporting, MDR oversight

• Process Design: Redesign workflows to be simpler, faster, and easier to follow
• Automation & Code: Write scripts, build integrations, eliminate manual toil
• AI Integration: Leverage AI tools (AI SOC, copilots) to accelerate triage, enrichment, and investigation
• Intake & Triage: Every request into D&R routed correctly with minimal manual effort
• Investigation Flow: Clear processes from alert to resolution; nothing falls through cracks
• Lessons Learned: Hotwashes, post-incident reviews, process improvements

• 10+ years security operations or SOC experience
• Writes code—Python, scripting, API work; builds own tools
• Experience redesigning and simplifying operational processes
• Strong Jira/ticketing system expertise
• Clear written communication—documents processes others can follow

• Experience applying AI/LLMs to security operations (triage, enrichment, summarization)
• SOAR platform experience
• Experience building security operations workflows from scratch
• Background in process design or operational improvement

This role is offered with fully remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific, and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

The wage range for this role is $450,000 - $600,000 inclusive of base salary and…