Detection and Response Engineer, Benchling
$136-166k
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Open for applications
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$136-166k
+ Offers Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years experience in Detection and Response (Detection Engineering, Digital Forensics, Incident Response)
- Strong communicator with both words and data - you have experience communicating to a wide variety of stakeholders under varying conditions
- Experience as an incident responder responsible for leading multi-team incidents
- Technical innovation skills (you enjoy finding technical solutions, learning new technology, evangelizing security and privacy)
- Ability to move forward projects in ambiguous situations through influence and not authority
- Practical experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
- Some experience with cloud environments and automation
- Relevant development experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python
What the job involves
- As a Security Response Engineer at Benchling you’ll be joining a team responsible for building a best-in-class security program from the ground up
- Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation and AI
- We’re looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data
- Investigating security events across the organization using your experience and knowledge in multiple security domains (log analysis, digital forensics, or malware analysis)
- Creating, deploying and maintaining high signal threat detections based on your understanding of threat actor TTPs
- Enhancing incident response processes through documentation and research into best practices
- Coordinating multi-functional incident response during security incidents, assisting partner teams during non-security incidents
- Researching new detection mechanisms for attack vectors and techniques relevant to our space and presenting findings to both internal and external audiences
- Evaluating external tooling, developing new automation and tooling
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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