Staff Product Security Operations Engineer, Affirm
Incident Response Lead
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location; Offers an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location; Offers an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- A seasoned Detection and Response Engineer with experience leading investigations and incidents including containment actions and forensics when needed in an engineering focused cloud heavy environment (AWS, EKS experience strongly preferred)
- 7+ years of experience with Detection and Response engineering with a significant focus on leading incidents and crises
- Ability to handle high pressure, complex situations in a calm and thoughtful manner, and when needed be the voice of reason and calm across the incident group
- Strong ability to analyze, parse and correlate information against data from multiple sources and when needed engineer solutions to do the same
- Strong communication skills with the ability to switch communication styles when needed between technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated experience in common Sec Ops tooling including but not limited to: Elastic, Splunk, Hive, Crowdstrike Falcon or similar
- Experience in creating automations to improve IR program workflows and capabilities (Python preferred)
- Experience with developing & supporting native data ingestion and data normalization integrations
- Ability to lead large projects and work with cross functional stakeholders throughout the organization
- Ability to partner with Legal & Compliance teams for relevant incident reporting requirements across regulatory bodies
- 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
- 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 Sec Ops Engineer to lead the Incident Response pillar, driving remediation and response efforts company-wide
- In this role, you will act as incident Commander during security incidents, leading the team to resolution in high-pressure situations including making decisions in ambiguous situations
- You'll also contribute to maturing other programs within the Sec Ops team, such as logging & detection, in our engineering-driven cloud infrastructure environment
- This is an extremely cross-functional and collaborative role that will span multiple functions across the company
- You will get to partner with internal Security teams (such as Platform Security, Corporate Security) as well as other external teams (such as Infrastructure, Observability, Privacy/Compliance) to create and improve security operations capabilities
- You'll work with these teams to tackle complex security problems and design solutions that align with our broader organizational goals
- Your impact will not only be within the company but also in improving the trust and security of millions of customers
- Lead security incident response efforts driving detection & response across the organization through all phases of an incident from identification to post-incident retrospective
- Serve as incident commander in large scale security incidents driving action oriented containment & remediation results
- Be the senior escalation point for the team when needed assisting with investigations and incidents (this is a very hands on role)
- Balance both tactical & strategic thinking in high pressure situations using facts & clear communications to lead the response team to next steps
- Provide briefings, status updates, and advice to a variety of audiences, including technical and executive leadership teams during incidents
- Lead developing and maturing security incident response playbooks and processes
- Contribute to engineering projects which build, maintain and improve our current monitoring, detection & response programs
- Contribute to our detection program by creating advanced detections based on frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Collaborate with cross functional teams across Affirm and lead key security projects
- Lead incident response training, road shows, and learning sessions across both engineering and non-engineering teams
- We highly encourage and support external engagement, publications, presentations with the security community as well
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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