Lead Security Engineer

Copia Automation brings modern developer tools and resiliency to industrial automation. Our product provides Git-based source control for automation professionals as well as remote, real-time monitoring of the entire plant floor + state of the art backup and recover technology. We are a well-funded startup and with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space.

As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.

We’re seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen our threat model and implement robust security controls across multiple domains. In this role, you’ll lead initiatives to secure both cloud and on-premises infrastructure — spanning networks, endpoints, identity and access management, and data protection. You’ll design and automate security solutions, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and enhance detection, response, and hardening across environments.

You are a self-starter who thrives with minimal supervision, capable of independently driving complex security projects from concept to production. You prioritize effectively, communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, think creatively to address emerging threats, and deliver exceptional, measurable results.

• Develop, tune, and automate detection and alerting pipelines; support incident response investigations and root-cause analysis
• Lead endpoint and server hardening efforts across Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, ensuring secure configurations and continuous compliance
• Mature and maintain enterprise detection and response capabilities; drive toward 100% visibility and monitoring coverage across all assets
• Oversee vulnerability management lifecycle — from scanning and triage to remediation tracking and executive reporting
• Design and implement security automation to streamline access management, alert triage, and compliance evidence collection
• Develop, enforce, and continuously refine Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) policies for both on-premises and cloud environments
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support threat modeling, application security reviews, and secure-by-design architecture decisions

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, or incident response, ideally within a SaaS or cloud-native company operating at scale
• Deep understanding of AWS security services (GuardDuty, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, etc.) and best practices for securing multi-account environments
• Hands-on experience with endpoint and server monitoring using CrowdStrike, including API integrations and telemetry enrichment across the monitoring stackExpertise designing, tuning, and maintaining SIEM and detection pipelines in Datadog, including custom metrics, dashboards, and automated alert workflows
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, including secure IaC design, module development, and policy-as-code implementations
• Familiarity with operational technology (OT) security, including segmentation, asset discovery, and threat detection in industrial or lab environments
• Experience automating security operations using Python, PowerShell, or Bash for orchestration and response workflows
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management, patch governance, and remediation prioritization strategies
• Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and securing hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.

This position is hybrid out of our New York City HQ.

Come join us!

Copia is growing extraordinarily fast! Join a best-in-class start-up with huge amounts of upside and impact. Our headquarters is in New York City.