Senior Engineer, Security Automation

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Security Engineer, Security Automation on Twilio’s Information Security Team.

About the job

This position is needed to assist Twilio’s Information Security Team operate more efficiently by improving and automating our critical security workflows.

As a Software Engineer, Security Automation on this team, you will participate in all phases of the software development life cycle which includes requirements gathering with security teams, technical design, estimations, sprint planning, coding, testing, deployments and on-call support. You will own, operate and maintain automated workflows that support various security programs including but not limited to cloud security, product security, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)  and enterprise security, employing Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to our partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement automated and AI-powered security solutions to protect Twilio's Cloud and Enterprise infrastructure, leveraging data orchestration frameworks and LLM-based approaches.
• Build workflows that integrate structured and unstructured data sources into orchestrated pipelines, enabling intelligent decision-making and risk reduction at scale.
• Design and prototype LLM-driven applications to automate security analysis, incident response, and governance tasks, while ensuring explainability and accuracy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify security needs and deliver advanced AI-enabled solutions that address those needs effectively.
• Contribute significantly to defining our security automation and AI roadmap, balancing near-term and long-term business impact with technical feasibility and scalability.
• Own and maintain the operational health of automation and AI-driven systems, ensuring they continue to meet reliability and performance requirements (SLOs and KPIs).
• Support on-call operations for tools, pipelines, and AI models owned by the team.
• Document and share knowledge through clear technical documentation of processes, procedures, AI models, and orchestration systems.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging trends in security automation, data orchestration, and AI/LLMs—and apply them to Twilio’s security operations for continuous innovation.

Qualifications

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experience