circle

Security Engineer II, Detection and Response

circle$122K — $165K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering.
  • Experience with security incident management, particularly in engineering contexts.
  • Familiarity with AWS and EKS environments.
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools for threat mitigation and understanding AI-related risks.
  • Knowledge of MacOS operating systems and file systems.
  • Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar languages.
  • Preferably have experience with blockchain technology.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and respond to emerging security threats proactively.
  • Advance AI deployment within the Security Operations Center (SOC).
  • Manage core security tools like SIEM and orchestration platforms.
  • Spot infrastructure gaps and work with business partners for better logging and detection.
  • Respond to incidents and collaborate to investigate and resolve them.
  • Develop detection techniques for identifying anomalous behaviors and attacks.
  • Support broader security initiatives like threat modeling and vulnerability scanning.
  • Handle on-call shifts when necessary.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility.
  • Opportunities for continuous learning in a dynamic environment.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams during critical incidents.
Full Job Description
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. You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment.

Also note that 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. We would also like someone with a strong response background and some exposure to insider risk.

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.


You are the right person if you:
  • View Security Detection & Response as a data and engineering problem.
  • Exude positivity.
  • Aren't afraid to share your ideas.
  • Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities.
  • Are self-reliant and motivated.
  • Communicate fearlessly.


Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $122,500 - $165,000

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About circle

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currency and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle's platform has supported over 100 million transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, with nearly 10 million retail customers, over a thousand businesses, while storing and securing more than $5 billion in digital currency assets. Circle is also a principal developer of USD Coin (USDC), which together with Coinbase and the Centre Consortium oversees the standards and protocol for what has become the fastest growing, regulated, fully-reserved stablecoin. USDC now stands at well over $10 billion market cap and is adding nearly $300 million net new digital dollars in circulation every week. Today, Circle's transactional services, business accounts, and platform APIs are giving rise to a new generation of financial services and commerce applications that hold the promise of raising global economic prosperity for all through programmable internet commerce.
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2013

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