Lead Security Engineer
Copia
Other Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 172k-215k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 11, 2026
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 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 hiring a Lead Security Engineer to mature Copia’s security engineering program. You’ll work closely with our CISO and report into engineering leadership.
This is not a siloed role. You’ll be the person responsible for detection engineering on Monday, IAM architecture on Tuesday, compliance evidence on Wednesday, and incident response whenever it’s needed. We need someone who can context-switch across security domains and knows which problem to prioritize on any given day.
You should be comfortable building a security program, not just operating one someone else designed. If you’ve been the first or second security engineer at a startup before, you know exactly what this means.
What you'll own:
- Detection Engineering & Incident Response: Build, tune, and maintain detection pipelines and alerting. Run incident investigations and root-cause analysis. Drive toward full visibility and monitoring coverage across cloud and endpoint assets.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Security: Secure our AWS environment — IAM policies, network segmentation, container security, secrets management. Codify security guardrails in infrastructure-as-code. Review architecture decisions with engineering for security impact.
- Enterprise Identity & Cloud Access: Architect and manage identity infrastructure across cloud and SaaS environments — IdP configuration, SSO/OIDC integration, SCIM provisioning, conditional access policies, and RBAC design. Own the full identity lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding, enforce least-privilege across AWS accounts and SaaS applications, and drive access certification and governance programs.
- Security Automation: Automate everything you can — alert triage, access provisioning, evidence collection, vulnerability management workflows. You’re one person covering a lot of ground; automation is how you scale.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong detection engineering skills — you’ve built and tuned SIEM rules, written detection content, and investigated real alerts, not just monitored dashboards someone else built
- Deep understanding of AWS security architecture — IAM, VPC design, multi-account strategies, and native security services
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code for security — codifying policies, guardrails, and configurations rather than clicking through consoles
- Experience with identity and access management architecture — IdP configuration, SSO/OIDC, RBAC design, and access lifecycle automation
- Scripting and automation chops in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for security operations, orchestration, and evidence workflows
- Clear, direct communication skills — you can explain a risk to an engineer, write a post-incident report for leadership, and answer a customer security questionnaire without corporate fluff
- Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon (EDR + LogScale/NG-SIEM) or Datadog Security Monitoring
- Terraform expertise, including module development and policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel)
- Familiarity with fleet management tools (FleetDM, osquery, Jamf, or Intune)
- Exposure to OT/ICS security concepts, industrial control systems, or critical infrastructure environments
- Experience with EU regulatory frameworks — NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act, IEC 62443
- Background in vulnerability management lifecycle — scanning, triage, remediation tracking, and executive reporting
- Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments
7+ years of experience in security engineering, with hands-on work across multiple security domains. You’ve ideally done this at a SaaS company or cloud-native startup where you couldn’t hide behind a large team.
Bonus
Why Copia?
- Your work has real-world safety impact. Our customers run critical infrastructure. Security here isn’t an abstract compliance exercise — it matters.
- You’ll build, not just maintain. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the security program at a company that’s scaling fast.
- No bureaucracy. You’ll work directly with engineering and leadership. Your recommendations get implemented, not lost in committee.
- Competitive equity. Full-time permanent employees receive meaningful ownership in a company with significant upside.
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.
172000 - 215000 USD a year
Benefits include unlimited PTO, employer-subsidized healthcare through Aetna, commuter benefits, in-office lunches, and more! Full-time, permanent employees also receive generous equity packages.