6sense

Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats

6sense$231K — $265K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Security Operations or similar team
  • 3+ years developing automation
  • 2+ years conducting adversary emulation exercises
  • Experience with security tools and cloud environments
  • Familiarity with industry frameworks and regulations (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001)
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
  • Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, GIAC) desirable

Responsibilities

  • Execute milestones for SecOps & Threat initiatives in line with the Security roadmap
  • Identify and respond to complex security incidents through monitoring and analysis
  • Engage with teams and vendors for validation of alerts and incident resolution
  • Research and implement mitigating controls for emerging threats
  • Perform security forensics
  • Build security tools and automation for operational efficiency
  • Lead threat exercises based on current security trends and academic research
  • Mentor engineers to enhance security controls and risk remediation

Benefits

  • Health coverage
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous paid time-off and holidays
  • Quarterly self-care days
  • Stock options
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
  • Quarterly wellness sessions for employee well-being
Full Job Description
Responsibilities & Accountabilities
  • Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap
  • Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis
  • Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis
  • Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services
  • Perform security forensics
  • Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale
  • Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research
  • Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation
  • Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity
  • Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

Performance Measurement
  • Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense's product, environment, systems, and architecture
  • Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels
  • Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation
  • Mitigates security exposures
  • Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs
  • Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects
  • Executes on milestones associated with major security projects
  • Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards
  • Provides project status updates on a weekly basis

Educational and Experience Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team
  • 3+ years of experience developing automation
  • 2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises
  • Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS)
  • Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, PASTA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC, are highly desirable

Competencies and Behaviors
  • Works independently to maintain and improve overall company security posture
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams
  • Translates technical requirements into actionable and time-bound requests
  • Drives projects and tasks to completion by following up on questions, deadlines, and requests for input
  • Maintains accuracy of information
  • Proactive prioritization and escalation to management
  • Strong communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills


Base Salary Range: $231,089.25 - $265,930.90. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work location and experience. The base salary is one component of 6sense's total compensation package for this position. Other compensation may include a bonus program or commission plan, and stock options if approved by 6sense's board. In addition, 6sense provides a variety of benefits, including generous health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, self-care days, and paid time off (PTO). #Li-remote

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Our Benefits:

Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options. We'll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices.

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

About 6sense

6sense is a B2B predictive intelligence engine for marketing and sales. Using its private network of billions of time-sensitive intent interactions, 6sense uncovers net-new prospects at every stage of the funnel and determines which existing prospects are in market to buy. 6sense predicts what products prospects will buy, how much they will buy, and when.
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Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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