Staff Security Operations Engineer

About Bridgewater 

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. 

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles. 

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. 

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Our Culture 

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.  

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About the Security Group 

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing

About Your Role

Own the operational backbone of Detection & Response (D&R): intake, triage, investigation flow, reporting, and MDR oversight. This role is the connective tissue that keeps the function running smoothly across Detection & Observability, Response & Readiness, and external partners.

The mandate is operational efficiency. The candidate will redesign processes, write code to eliminate toil, and leverage AI to make the team faster. Every workflow touched should become simpler, more automated, and easier to execute.

About the Team

This role operates autonomously, engages partners effectively, and ensures D&R delivers on its mission. D&R is structured around three capabilities:

• Detection & Observability: Ensures detections flow into operational processes
• Response & Readiness: Ensures investigations and incidents have clear handoffs
• Operations: Owns intake, triage, reporting, MDR oversight

Key Responsibilities:

• Process Design: Redesign workflows to be simpler, faster, and easier to follow
• Automation & Code: Write scripts, build integrations, eliminate manual toil
• AI Integration: Leverage AI tools (AI SOC, copilots) to accelerate triage, enrichment, and investigation
• Intake & Triage: Every request into D&R routed correctly with minimal manual effort
• Investigation Flow: Clear processes from alert to resolution; nothing falls through cracks
• MDR Oversight: Vendor integration, escalation quality, handoff efficiency
• Lessons Learned: Hotwashes, post-incident reviews, process improvements

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years security operations or SOC experience
• Writes code—Python, scripting, API work; builds own tools
• Experience redesigning and simplifying operational processes
• Experience managing MSSP/MDR vendor integrations
• Strong Jira/ticketing system expertise
• Clear written communication—documents processes others can follow

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying AI/LLMs to security operations (triage, enrichment, summarization)
• SOAR platform experience
• Experience building security operations workflows from scratch
• Background in process design or operational improvement

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific, and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $450,000 - $600,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 65 - 75% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits.

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Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer