Senior Security Automation Specialist - USDS

Responsibilities

About the Team:
The Security Platform team is an AI‑powered Security team focused on building innovative solutions that proactively defend the company while improving productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency.

About the Role:

Our mission is to eliminate manual work through automation, AI, self‑service platforms, and security products that enable the business to move faster while maintaining strong security controls. We believe the future of security is not operating tools; it is engineering intelligent systems that solve problems at scale.

• Design and develop innovative solutions to enhance security and compliance posture.
• Create AI agents, intelligent workflows, and security copilots to automate processes and reduce manual effort.
• Build internal security products, self‑service portals, and autonomous response capabilities using large language models and modern software engineering practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate challenges into scalable technical solutions, build reusable platforms, and drive adoption of new, efficient security capabilities across the organization.
• Lead the initiative to automate security techniques and processes to reduce effort.
• Collaborate with Security, Privacy, Compliance, Risk, IT, and Engineering teams to develop solutions that automate processes, improve user experience, and strengthen the company's security posture.

• 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Software Engineering, Product Engineering, or Automation Engineering.
• Experience coding, using APIs, or performing technical integrations.
• Experience automating business or security processes.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Devin, Trae, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of security concepts and controls.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience developing AI agents or copilots.
• Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or other LLM APIs.
• Experience with Lang Chain, CrewAI, Auto Gen, MCP, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with React, Type Script, Node.js, or modern web frameworks.
• Experience with workflow automation platforms.
• Experience building internal developer platforms.
• Experience in security operations, compliance, or risk management.

USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at

For Pay Transparency:
Compensation Description (Annually) - Washington, DC. The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $132,480 - $242,820 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day‑one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.