Staff Product Security Operations Engineer, Affirm
Detection and Response
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location, + Employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location, + Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- A seasoned Security Operations Engineer with at least 5+ years of experience in Detection and Response with a significant engineering focus in a cloud heavy environment (AWS or similar)
- Experience with developing native data ingestion and data normalization integrations to aid the Sec Ops monitoring & Detection program
- Hands-on experience handling investigative, containment and remediation actions across environments and the ability to partner with Infrastructure, SRE teams during incidents
- Demonstrated experience in common Sec Ops tooling including but not limited to: Elastic, Splunk, Hive, Crowdstrike Falcon or similar
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or similar)
- Experience in creating automations to improve IR program workflows and capabilities (Python preferred)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) including experience developing and deploying cloud services using Terraform
- Strong communication skills with the ability to switch communication styles when needed between engineering and non-engineering audiences
- Ability to lead and drive large projects and work with cross functional stakeholders throughout the Engineering organization
- Experience in building actionable threat intelligence & hunting programs is always a bonus!
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- Affirm recognizes that security is essential to the company’s ongoing success. Our mission is to cultivate a culture of security at Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products. The Security Operations (Sec Ops) program is the foundation of both preventive and responsive security practices to protect Affirm’s assets from an adverse security event
- As a member of the Security Team at Affirm, you will be joining a team of fun, passionate and highly skilled individuals who like solving security challenges and enjoy learning new skills. We partner together with a team first mindset and are keen on redefining security in the fintech space
- We're seeking a Staff Security Operations (Sec Ops) Engineer who will help us build and mature the Security Operations Engineering program including Logging, Detection, and Response
- This is a hands-on role where we are looking for engineering experience securing cloud environments. You will also participate in on-call duties along with the rest of the team and serve as engineering escalation point for the team
- You will collaborate with internal Security teams (such as Platform Security, Corporate Security) and external teams (such as Infrastructure, Observability, Privacy/Compliance) to create and improve existing security operations capabilities. You will partner with these teams to solve complex security problems and design solutions that are aligned with broader organizational goals
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader to mature our Logging & Detection Engineering program
- Build and enhance our logging pipeline to ingest the right data sources that improve our visibility
- Contribute to our detection program by writing advanced detections based on frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Continuously tune detections to improve our detection fidelity and calibrate signals to maximize value while minimizing noise
- Contribute to engineering projects by building, maintaining and improving our tooling
- Drive monitoring, detection and response and remediation for security incidents
- Be a senior escalation point for the team when needed in investigations and incidents particularly from an engineering escalation perspective
- Build automation and integrations between tools when needed to help improve logging, detection and response workflows
- Contribute to developing and maturing security incident response playbooks and processes
- Collaborate with cross functional teams across Affirm and lead key Security projects
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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