Member of Technical Staff, Security Operations
Develops security automation, conducts vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and manages security operations including incident response and cloud guardrails for a crypto platform. Requires 3+ years in security engineering with strong coding and AWS skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain security automation and tooling to detect vulnerabilities through static and dynamic analysis across code and live systems.
- Conduct application security assessments, penetration tests, and code reviews to identify high-risk security issues and provide secure development guidance.
- Develop and operate vulnerability management workflows, partnering with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate findings.
- Establish and test security guardrails for code, cloud resources, and infrastructure components.
- Monitor and respond to security events and configuration anomalies, leading investigation and containment efforts.
- Manage the full vulnerability lifecycle from discovery through remediation.
- Lead Security Operations initiatives with minimal oversight.
- Deliver assurance artifacts for regulated entity requirements.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, application security, penetration testing, or security operations.
- Experience building or maintaining security tools, integrations, or automation workflows using Python, Go, or similar.
- Proficiency in vulnerability assessment in applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with static and dynamic analysis tools like Semgrep, CodeQL, Burp Suite.
- AWS security fundamentals including IAM, VPCs, security groups, CloudTrail.
- Incident response skills: investigate events, root cause analysis.
- Computer science fundamentals (concurrency, algorithms, data structures).
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with bug bounty programs (HackerOne, Bugcrowd).
- Regulated financial services, fintech, or crypto environment.
- Blockchain security, smart contract auditing, Web3 technologies.
- Open-source security tools contributions.
- Certifications (OSCP, GWAPT, GCIH, AWS Security Specialty).
Skills
Python, Go, Semgrep, Codeql, Burp Suite, AWS, IAM, Vpcs, Cloudtrail, Vulnerability Management
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