Lead Security Operations Engineer, Wayfair
Global Cybersecurity
A global online homeware marketplace
Job no longer available
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience working in cyber security operations
- Thorough understanding of the threat landscape, the latest security trends, attack vectors for corporate and cloud environments, and how build detection and response tooling to identify and respond to malicious actors
- Experience with building and scaling SOAR/SIEM technologies
- Experience with incident detection and remediation
- Strong working knowledge of threat vectors, vulnerabilities, and what anomalies to look for
- Strong working knowledge of Linux and/or Windows logs & indicators
- One or more scripting languages to automate or build features, Python, or PowerShell preferred
- Hands-on Experience with incident response and monitoring tools, such as SIEM, EDR, Firewall Management
- Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to communicate security risks in “business” rather than purely “engineering”
- Strong understanding of cyber security best practices and frameworks such as NIST, MITRE, ATT&CK Framework, and OWASP Top 10
What the job involves
- Our Security Operations team is tasked with monitoring and protecting Wayfair from an ever growing number of security risks, and finding new and creative ways to do so
- In this role you will work closely with the cyber security organization to build monitoring and response tooling and processes to improve our monitoring and response capabilities
- Logging - Get all security relevant cloud, infrastructure and application logs parsed, and into our SIEM
- Detection - Setup detection and prevention rules and policies, POC and deploy tools that help with detection, tune/audit deployed rules/policies in security tools on true and false positives, setting up a detection framework, threat intel framework/program, ATO detection program/framework etc
- Response - Build plan and procedures for Incident Response, create playbooks to be followed, automate response, develop/deploy malware analysis tools and techniques, forensic tools and techniques to capture evidence/malware, POC and deploy tools that help with response, integrate with customer service teams and engineering teams etc
- Build security alerts & dashboards in various incident response tools. Monitor for suspicious activities/alerts in the cloud/infrastructure/application from various sources such as internal reports from employees as well as external reports such as customers/social media, vendors, partners, bug bounty programs etc., deployed/integrated security tools, data visualization tools etc
- Analyze these suspicious activities/alerts including malware analysis and forensics
- Respond to security alerts and incidents, respond to novel issues and take appropriate action to remediate and resolve
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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