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Associate Security Engineer in Australia

  • Melbourne

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspected incidents with guidance from experienced engineers and analysts.
  • Contribute to detection, monitoring, enrichment, and response workflows across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and related services.
  • Build and improve detection content, integrations, dashboards, and alerting across security platforms.
  • Develop runbooks, playbooks, and automations to reduce manual effort and accelerate security response.
  • Expand threat-intelligence-led detection engineering and automation coverage across Xero.
  • Collaborate with Security Operations, Security Response, Engineering, Product, CX, and Legal teams.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated curiosity or interest in security engineering, cybersecurity, software engineering, cloud security, detection engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Ability to learn an unfamiliar codebase or platform and apply established patterns with guidance.
  • Hands-on experience scripting, debugging, automating, or building small integrations.
  • Experience working in an engineering, security, IT, operations, or technology team and collaborating to deliver change.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including openly sharing progress, blockers, and context.
  • Interest in using AI-assisted tools responsibly.
  • Collaborative approach and willingness to pair, receive feedback, and support teammates.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model based in the Melbourne office, with flexibility to work from home.
  • Opportunity to work with a global team and connect in the office during designated boost days.
  • Professional development through delivery, pairing, incident participation, feedback, and learning from experienced engineers.
  • High-trust, blameless, learning-oriented team culture.

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