Lead Security Engineer

About Copia

Copia Automation builds the version control and change management platform for industrial automation. Our customers are in oil & gas, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure — environments where the code running on PLCs, SCADA systems, and HMIs has direct safety implications. We bring modern software engineering practices to operational technology teams that have been underserved by tooling for decades.

We’re a well-funded startup growing fast, with enterprise customers deploying Copia across hundreds of facilities. Our headquarters is in New York City.

The Role

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.