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Security Automation Engineer at Stackline

Seattle, WAFull-timeITPosted about 1 month ago
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<div class="content-intro"><div>Stackline is the first full-funnel connected commerce platform for the world's most innovative brands. Business leaders, product innovators, performance marketers, and analysts trust Stackline as the single source of commerce truth. Fueled by our proprietary neural network, our market insights, revenue metrics, behavior analyses, and autonomous functionality create the actions that determine success or failure.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Founded in 2014 in Seattle, we now have offices in Minneapolis, New York, Cleveland, and London. Since November 2020, Stackline has raised $180 million in strategic investments from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and TA Associates.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Stackline is on a mission to fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together.</div></div><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Role</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Security Automation Engineer is a hands-on role responsible for Stackline's security posture, compliance program, and identity and endpoint platform. This covers a single Entra ID tenant, around a dozen federated applications, roughly 265 managed endpoints across macOS and Windows, and a SOC 2 Type II program tracked in Vanta with an external auditor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For years, one generalist administrator ran this role — workable, but it revealed a limit: most of the week went to procedural work, running checklists and reconciling systems that disagree. That work has to be right but not done by hand. It needs a human to <em>design</em> it, and then to watch it run.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role replaces that model with an engineer who automates the procedural half — evidence collection, offboarding, monitoring, and reconciliation — using scripts, services, and LLM agents. It builds on an existing internal repository of PowerShell and Python tooling, freeing capacity for the work that requires judgment: closing security gaps, hardening endpoints, driving vulnerability remediation, and carrying the compliance program.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The role splits roughly 40% security and compliance, 35% building automation, and 25% hands-on platform and deskside support. To support this on-site component, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">this position is based at our Seattle office 4 days per week</span>.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You Will Do</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>Security Posture and Compliance</u></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the majority of Stackline's ~50 SOC 2 Type II controls in Vanta; route the rest to owners in Engineering, HR, Finance, and Legal.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive vulnerability remediation to SLA — critical in 15 days, high in 30, medium in 90 — across endpoint findings.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Run quarterly access reviews, the annual risk assessment, policy and vendor reassessment, and the leadership security council.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coordinate the annual penetration test and track findings to closure.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own incident response for identity and endpoint compromise: investigate, contain, document.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>Automation and Agents</u></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is the part of the job that makes the rest of it possible. You will identify the operational work that repeats and replace it with software that runs unattended and tells someone when it fails.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Extend the nightly evidence-collection pipeline into a maintainable, company-owned system.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Automate employee offboarding to match the orchestration already in place for onboarding.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build certificate and secret expiry monitoring across federated applications and app registrations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reconcile assets between the endpoint management platform and the ITSM system of record.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Automate ticket triage, first-response drafting, and knowledge retrieval against IT documentation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build with production rigor: scoped service identities, idempotent runs, structured logs, real failure alerts.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>Identity and Endpoint Platform</u></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Administer Microsoft Entra ID: conditional access, authentication methods, groups and role assignment, SAML/SCIM integrations, app registrations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Administer Microsoft Intune across macOS and Windows: compliance policies, configuration profiles, application packaging and deployment, enrollment, Apple Business Manager.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Close endpoint-hardening gaps: EDR on macOS, local administrator privilege management, centralized endpoint logging.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Federate standalone-authenticating applications so disabling one account revokes everything.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What We Are Looking For</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You write real code.</strong> Production-quality Python or PowerShell, and the ability to read the other — not glue scripts you'd be embarrassed to hand over.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Deep, hands-on identity experience.</strong> Entra ID or Azure AD at depth: conditional access, authentication methods, SAML/SCIM integrations, Graph API. Okta or Google Workspace depth works if you're ready to go deep on Entra quickly.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Endpoint management at fleet scale.</strong> Intune or Jamf — configuration profiles, compliance policy, application packaging, enrollment, and what happens when a device falls out of compliance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You've carried a compliance framework, not just survived one.</strong> SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar, from the inside — you know the difference between a control that's documented and one that's operating.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You've built automation other people depended on.</strong> Scheduled jobs, API integrations, least-privilege service identities, and alerting for when it breaks at 3am.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You're comfortable being the whole function.</strong> No tier one beneath you, no second administrator beside you. You decide, document, and say plainly when something is above your line.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You'll be in the Seattle office 4 days per week.</strong> Parts of this job are physical and can't be done remotely.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education, certifications, and relevant professional experience.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Bonus Points If You Have</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Shipped something real with LLM agents and tool use</strong> — Claude Code, MCP servers, or an agent framework — and can talk about what broke in production, not just what demoed well.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>macOS security depth:</strong> endpoint detection, privilege management, unified logging.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Networking you've configured yourself:</strong> VLANs, dual-WAN failover, Meraki or UniFi.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Automated against an ITSM platform's API</strong> and hit the credential-scope wall everyone hits.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Incident investigation:</strong> sign-in forensics, audit log analysis, mailbox rule and OAuth grant abuse.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Benefits and Perks</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's important that each and every employee feels they are supported and can complete their life's best work today and in the future. As part of that, we are committed to doing our part in addressing pay gaps and discrepancies by providing pay transparency for all of our roles. Actual salaries are just one component of the compensation package and may vary above or below the range based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, geographical location, and performance. The pay range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000&nbsp;per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and other team-specific awards. In addition, we provide a robust benefits and perks package that includes:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage that actually supports you — including HSA with company match and FSA options</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fertility benefits to support your path to parenthood</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">401(k) with company match to help you plan ahead</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Company-paid life insurance</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20 days of PTO + 9 company holidays to truly unplug</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paid parental leave for all parents — because family matters</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Summer Fridays (log off at 3pm and enjoy it)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regular in-office social events including happy hours and catered lunches</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A thoughtfully stocked kitchen with healthy snacks and fresh fruit</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><div><em>Stackline is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.</em></div></div>