Senior Engineer, Fivetran
Automation Incident Detection & Response
$208.1-260.1k
Offers RSU stock grants (That may vary by country and worker type).
Office located in Oakland, CA
Data integration solutions
Be an early applicant
Data integration solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$208.1-260.1k
Offers RSU stock grants (That may vary by country and worker type).
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Fivetran's mission is to solve the hardest part of building a data-driven company: centralising all your data in one place.
Role
Who you are
- Incident Response Expertise: Proven experience in handling and managing security incidents across diverse environments
- Cloud-Native Security: Demonstrated experience securing cloud-native applications and deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Cloud Container Security Expertise: Deep understanding of securing containerized applications and Kubernetes deployments
- Security Automation: Experience designing and implementing automated security workflows
- Scripting Proficiency: Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go) for automation
- Security Tooling Proficiency: Familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and vulnerability scanners
- Threat Detection & Analysis: Ability to analyze security logs, identify malicious activity, and conduct threat investigations
- Clear Communication: Ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Attack & Defense Knowledge: Understanding of modern attack techniques and effective defense strategies
- Analytical Problem Solving: Ability to analyze security issues, identify root causes, and troubleshoot effectively
- Collaborative Teamwork: Ability to work effectively independently and within a team
What the job involves
- Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
- We’re looking for a highly skilled and execution-focused Senior Security Engineer to join our Incident Detection and Response Team, concentrating on enhancing our detection and response capabilities through robust automation
- This individual contributor (IC) role is deeply hands-on, demanding expertise in security automation, cloud security, and development practices
- You will play a key role in developing and enhancing automated security workflows, integrating security into our threat detection and response processes, and ensuring Fivetran maintains a proactive stance against emerging threats
- You will collaborate across multiple teams throughout Fivetran, including platform security, SRE, and engineering, to automate security operations and enhance our incident response efficiency
- Optimize and Expand the Automation Capabilities of Our Incident Response Framework: Design and implement enhancements to our existing framework, ensuring scalability and comprehensive automated security operations by refining data flow, integration points, and decision-making logic
- Automate Incident Workflows for Rapid Response: Automate alert triage, enrichment, investigation, and remediation, seamlessly integrating with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and other security platforms to enable efficient data sharing and workflow orchestration
- Develop Advanced, Event-Driven Automation: Create dynamic workflows that adapt to various incident scenarios, triggering automated actions based on real-time events and conditional logic to drastically reduce incident response times
- Proactively Mitigate Risks Through Automation: Focus on automated remediation and containment strategies by automating vulnerability scanning, patching, and configuration checks, utilizing threat intelligence to block malicious activity, and automatically isolating compromised systems, blocking malicious traffic, and disabling compromised accounts
- Drive Continuous Improvement Through Post-Incident Analysis: Analyze incident data to identify patterns, trends, and root causes, evaluating the effectiveness of automated processes and identifying areas for improvement to ensure the incident response process remains efficient and effective
- Enhance Security Assessment Tools and Processes: Enhance security assessment tools and processes, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, SIEM, DLP, and EDR
- Stay Ahead of the Threat Landscape: Stay up to date with cybersecurity threats, trends, and industry standards to ensure Fivetran remains resilient against emerging risks
Our take
After a few slower years since graduating from Y Combinator in 2013, Fivetran has skyrocketed, consistently raising large sums of funding, including an Andreessen Horowitz-backed $565m Series D round in 2021.
Customers are mostly data analysts at companies with inefficient database schema, who suffer from a high risk of project failures. Fivetran offers rapid integration of complex data services into cloud warehouses, tagging onto the trend towards cloud-based data systems.
By developing and continuously improving cloud applications that adapt to changing APIs and data schemas, Fivetran is attracting customers who seek long-term data viability. Fivetran also benefits from being easy to set up and integrate into a client's existing software.
After acquiring HVR, a data integration competitor, and Teleport Data, Fivetran continues to add functionality and customers via acquisition. A round of funding in 2023 paved the way for expansion into European and Asian markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.6m
Company benefits
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
- 401k match program
- Eligible donation match program
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
- Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Referral Bonuses
- Stock equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door
- Annual Camp Fivetran trip that brings together every employee from around the world
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh
Taylor Brown
(COO)Studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level
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