Detection & Response Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with key employees across the organization.
• Use offensive security expertise to develop plausible threat scenarios and identify opportunities for detection.
• Assess logs for gaps and implement additional logging as needed.
• Build out sophisticated data pipelines to handle increasing volumes of data and enrich our observability.
• Lead incident response, as needed.
• Develop detection rules and a process for keeping them effective in collaboration with our other D&R Engineers.
• Participate in table-top and redteam exercises to evaluate efficacy.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g. privilege escalation) in real-world corporate networks, cloud environments, or applications.
• Hands-on experience responding to security incidents.
• Strong understanding of computer networks, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols.
• 4+ years of experience in Security, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working at a small company, smaller independent division of larger company, or a hyper-growth startup.
• Experience with ClickHouse or similar data warehouses.
• Red team experience.
• Experience in incident commander role, managing security incidents or other disasters.

Compensation

$188,000 - $282,000