Senior Security Engineer, Marqeta
Detection & Response
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Program
Modern payment and card issuing solutions
Be an early applicant
Modern payment and card issuing solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Program
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on, in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations, including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and/or threat intelligence
- Strong technical foundation and understanding of security concepts, solutions and technologies; experience with enterprise security services such as EDR, SIEM technologies, and SOAR platforms is essential
- Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and how to utilise them in the assessment of detection capabilities and coverage
- Skilled in identifying opportunities for developing new threat detection use cases based on security telemetry, environment baselining, actionable threat intelligence and Incident Response lessons learned
- Ability to identify gaps in our detection coverage across global infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility and control through logging and detection content
- Strong understanding of AWS and containerization technologies
- Experience with Terraform
What the job involves
- We are on the lookout for a UK-based Senior Security Engineer to join our Security Operations & Response Team. This role is pivotal in enhancing Marqeta’s ability to detect and respond to threats.
- You will contribute to the design, documentation, and implementation of a security detection engineering program, participate in on-call rotations and incident response efforts, and collaborate with various teams to assess detection gaps across Marqeta. This role offers the opportunity to directly impact the program through strong technical contributions. The role reports to the Manager of Security Operations and Response
- Perform detection engineering and regularly write/maintain detection logic to identify suspicious activity
- Document and track detection capabilities across numerous data sources
- Work with team leadership to define and report metrics related to detection capabilities and effectiveness
- Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation for alert response
- Be an active responder as part of the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team during declared incidents
- Contribute to automation and orchestration playbooks to streamline detection engineering, threat hunting and incident response activities
- Participate in threat hunts to proactively identify threats in our corporate and market environments
- Regularly review current use cases/detection logic to identify and remove gaps in coverage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Marqeta processes payments quickly, offering businesses a more straightforward way to take customer payments with its physical and virtual card solutions. The company has a string of major companies utilizing its flexible and scalable platform, including Uber, Doordash, and Square.
The company is rapidly expanding in Europe, with strong growth in processing volumes and new partnerships, including major collaborations with firms like Trade Republic. Along with the company's recent partnership with Visa and Affirm which introduces the Visa Flexible Credential, allowing users to access multiple payment methods on one card, adding convenience and flexibility.
With a focus on global growth and delivering innovative financial services, Marqeta is targeting new verticals and supporting underbanked businesses. With this aim, the company is on its way to deepening its impact in the fintech space and driving further innovation in payments.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $541.3m
Company benefits
- Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
- Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
- Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
- Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
- 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
- Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
- Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
- Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
- Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock
Company HQ
Northgate - Waverly, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Jason Gardner
(Founder)Having studied at Arizona State University, they worked in Management for Benettar Marble & Granite, NetManage, and Gartner Group. They founded PropertyBridge and spent 2 years at MoneyGram before founding Marqeta in January 2010.
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