Senior Security Operations Engineer, Brex

• We’re looking for individuals with a strong background and interest in detecting, responding to, and resolving security incidents and security challenges
• You should be comfortable dealing with lots of moving pieces, changing priorities, and new technologies, while having a keen eye for detail
• Most importantly, you should be enthusiastic about working with a variety of backgrounds, roles, and people across Brex
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR equivalent training / fellowship OR 5+ years work experience
• Experience working in a detection & response or detection engineering role with responsibilities for security alert triage, security incident response, and system ownership of detection engineering systems (e.g. SIEMs, data pipelines, monitoring tools)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows (e.g. Buildkite, Flux, Git, Terraform) in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• While not primarily a development role, the team develops and maintains tools written in Go and Python, so strong coding experience is required
• You thrive in a collaborative environment filled with a diverse group of people with different expertise and backgrounds

Desirable

• The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for both internal and external users
• We have multiple autonomous and collaborative teams who are eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work
• Together, we strive to build robust and scalable systems that enable Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential
• As a Senior Security Operations Engineer at Brex, you will focus on preventing, detecting and responding to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments
• Our team is responsible for functions across corporate security, detection & response, and infrastructure security domains; and we perform systems engineering and automation to support those functions
• In this role, you will own and operate detection engineering systems and develop tools to improve our security capabilities
• As a Senior Security Engineer you will be expected to build and maintain our team’s open source project Substation and have the opportunity to contribute to the Brex Tech Blog
• You’ll be part of a team that actively contributes to the wider security community and has a strong commitment to mentorship and engineering excellence
• Security Operations collaborates often with other teams in Trust, IT and Engineering which means you will have the opportunity to work closely with teams like Application Security, Corporate Engineering, GRC and IT to proactively improve security configurations, drive positive employee behavior and generally work to prevent events from becoming incidents
• Work on a highly cross-functional team to prevent, detect and respond to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments
• Perform security incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation, participate in periodic threat hunting and security exercises
• Leading, scoping and building features, participate in designing, and maintaining tools and systems which support the team’s domains – corporate security, detection & response and infrastructure security
• Collaborating and partnering with engineering and operations teams to drive remediation of security issues, while balancing prioritization of those security issues within SLA and teams’ respective backlogs
• Caring about secure system design, valuing building things correctly, an understanding of an iterative MVP approach and an empathetic mindset when working with others