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Security Engineer - Detection and Response (Austin - Texas)

extra holidays - extra parental leave - work from home - fully flexible
Remote: 
Full Remote
Salary: 
135 - 155K yearly
Experience: 
Junior (1-2 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

1 year of relevant industry experience or new graduate, Basic knowledge in security incident detection, Proficiency in scripting with Python, Experience with serverless deployments is a plus.

Key responsabilities:

  • Collaborate with engineering teams for security telemetry
  • Build and maintain security monitoring infrastructure
  • Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure
  • Research new threat attack vectors

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Confluent Computer Software / SaaS Large http://confluent.io/
1001 - 5000 Employees
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Job description

Position at Confluent Inc

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

We are looking for a security engineer to join our detection and response engineering team. You will have a unique opportunity to leverage your threat detection and response skillset  to build some of the foundational systems and services to keep our infrastructure free from malicious actors and threats. You will partner closely with all engineering teams, IT administrators, and compliance analysts to ensure that we maintain sufficient visibility into our environments and develop effective programs and practices to ensure that our environments are always secure. Tooling and automation will be key to success as we scale our environments to meet customer demand.

We intend to be the world's best, fastest, and most complete stream processing service built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!

What You Will Do:

  • Collaborate with engineering teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry.
  • Assist in building and maintaining an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution.
  • Contribute to detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure that our critical infrastructure and services operate in a safe environment.
  • Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing its potential impact to Confluent.
  • Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents.
  • Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape.
  • Proactively improve the quality of our detection rules and strive to eliminate classes of issues by working directly with engineering teams.

What You Will Bring:

  • Ideally 1 year of relevant industry experience but this role is open to new graduates as well.
  • Basic knowledge in security incident detection and response techniques.
  • Demonstrated ability to contribute to projects with freedom and autonomy.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and workload.
  • Proficiency in scripting or coding with an interpreted language such as Python.
    Experience with serverless deployments in AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. This position has an annual fixed salary dependent on your degree - 134,800 - 154,980 USD and includes a competitive equity package. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE.

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Experience

Level of experience: Junior (1-2 years)
Industry :
Computer Software / SaaS
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Time Management
  • Collaboration

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