Security Engineer
Exodus Movement Inc.
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Exodus Movement Inc. is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
As a Security Engineer at Exodus, you will play a critical role in strengthening the security and resilience of our platform by engineering scalable defensive systems across enterprise and production environments, with detection and response as core capabilities. This role goes beyond traditional monitoring, you will design and implement scalable automation that empowers our Cyber Defense team to detect, triage, and respond to threats more effectively. By leveraging both AI-assisted and traditional solutions, you will drive measurable improvements to our security operations, enhance incident response readiness, and build systems that scale alongside our growing business. Your work will directly contribute to protecting our users and enabling Exodus to operate securely in an evolving threat landscape.
What You Will Do
* Build smart, AI-assisted automation that reduces manual security work.
* Connect and enrich security data across enterprise and security tools.
* Help improve how quickly and confidently alerts are understood and prioritized.
* Play an active role in security hardening, investigations and incident response.
* Create scalable automation that makes the Cyber Defense team more effective.
* Continuously reduce attack surface across our enterprise and production environments.
Who You Are
* You live in the EMEA Region (UTC 0 to UTC +4 time zones).
* You bring 4+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Detection Engineering, and/or Incident Response.
* You have hands-on experience building AI-driven security automation or agentic workflows.
* You understand AI security concepts and have experience integrating AI/LLM-based tooling into security workflows.
* You're proficient in scripting languages for automation and API integrations.
* You have experience building and improving SecDevOps automations.
* You're comfortable working with SIEMs (queries, alert tuning).
* You're familiar with EDR platforms.
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About Exodus Movement Inc.
Exodus Movement Inc. is a company in the security industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.