Security Automation Engineer

About G2 - The Company G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. When you join G2, you’re joining the industry’s leading team that helps businesses reach their peak potential by powering decisions and strategies with trusted insights from real software users. Now, we have joined forces with Capterra https://www.capterra.com/, SoftwareAdvice https://www.softwareadvice.com/, and GetApp https://www.getapp.com/ to create the largest source of online data and software insights to fuel intelligent buying in the age of AI. With 200M+ combined annual visitors and 6M verified reviews, we are now the centralized place to enable software buyers to make better and faster decisions with confidence. And we are just getting started! We are setting out to transform the global B2B software industry and become the most trusted data foundation for buyers and sellers of software for the age of AI. Does that sound exciting to you? Come join us as we try to reach our next PEAK! About G2 - Our People At G2, everything we are and what we do is grounded in our PEAK values— (Performance + Entrepreneurship + Authenticity + Kindness. Working at G2 means you are part of a value-driven, growing global community that climbs PEAKs together. We cheer for each other’s successes, learn from our mistakes, and support and lean on one another during challenging times. With ambition and entrepreneurial spirit we push each other to take on challenging work, which will help us all to grow and learn. You will be part of a global, diverse team of smart, dedicated, and kind individuals - each with unique talents, aspirations, and life experiences. At the heart of our community and culture are our people-led ERGs, which celebrate and highlight the diverse identities of our global team. As an organization, we are intentional about our DEI https://company.g2.com/dei and philanthropic work (like our G2 Gives https://company.g2.com/gives program) because it encourages us all to be better people. ABOUT THE ROLE G2 is looking for a Security Automation Engineer who is responsible for establishing visibility, control, and governance across G2’s SaaS and cloud ecosystem through automation and data-driven asset management. This role builds the foundation for continuous SaaS posture management—aggregating and reconciling vendor, financial, and identity data to ensure secure configurations, reduce shadow IT, and strengthen audit readiness. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - SaaS Asset Discovery & Inventory Management - Develop and maintain a centralized inventory of all SaaS vendors by aggregating data from SSO, finance, procurement, and SaaS APIs (25%). - Track and update key metadata such as owner, department, SSO/MFA status, logging, and cost center (15%). - Reconcile financial and procurement data (e.g., NetSuite, Coupa) with active SaaS usage to detect unauthorized or redundant tools (10%). - Establish lifecycle tracking for SaaS tools, including onboarding, renewal, and deprovisioning workflows. - Security Configuration & Posture Monitoring - Automate collection of SaaS configuration and security metadata (e.g., admin MFA, logging, backups, SSO enforcement) using API integrations and scripts (20%). - Partner with IT and app owners to validate secure configurations and remediate identified risks (10%). - Conduct quarterly access and configuration reviews for high-risk applications. - Automation, Integration, & Reporting - Build automated pipelines to reconcile data from identity, financial, and SaaS management systems (15%). - Develop dashboards and metrics for SaaS risk posture, audit readiness, and control compliance (5%). - Support audit and compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF) through evidence collection and control documentation. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. Even if you don’t check all the boxes in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. - 3–5 years of experience in security eng