Security Engineer II, Detection and Response
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About the Role
Circle is looking for a Security Engineer II to join the Detection and Response team. You will proactively identify and respond to security threats, advance AI deployment in SOC, manage SIEM and orchestration tools, and develop detection techniques.
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Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats
- Advance deployment of AI to SOC function
- Help manage core tooling, such as SIEM and Orchestration platforms
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection
- Respond to incidents and collaborate across teams to investigate and resolve
- Develop detection techniques to identify anomalous behaviors and attacks across the environment
- Support broader security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building
- Take on call shifts
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering
- Experience working security incidents, especially those involving engineering
- Experience working in an AWS + EKS environment required
- Hands on experience using AI tooling both to accelerate work and to address threats
- Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on MacOS
- Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages
- Professional or hobbyist blockchain exposure is preferred
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What You’ll Be Part Of
- Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions.
- We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely.
- As a member of this team, you’ll lead projects and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program while collaborating across Circle teams.
- This position will require you to perform on call duties mainly during working hours to support security operations, and you will assist the team with the occasional night time and weekend incident.
What You'll Work On
- Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats.
- Advance deployment of AI to SOC function.
- Help manage core tooling, such as SIEM and Orchestration platforms.
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection.
- Respond to incidents and collaborate across teams to investigate and resolve.
- Develop detection techniques to identify anomalous behaviors and attacks across the environment.
- Support broader security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building.
- Take on call shifts.
What You’ll Bring To Circle
- Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high stress situations, which sometimes involves after hours work.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgment to establish order of priorities on the fly.
- Self motivated and creative problem solver able to work independently with minimal guidance.
- Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS, and GSuite.
We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:
- 2+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering.
- Experience working security incidents, especially those involving engineering.
- Experience working in an AWS + EKS environment required.
- Hands on experience using AI tooling both to accelerate work and to address threats, coupled with a strong understanding of the organizational risks AI introduces and strategies to defend against them.
- Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on MacOS.
- Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages.
- Professional or hobbyist blockchain exposure is preferred.
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