Security Engineer II, Detection and Response

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. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• 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 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.
• Able 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

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.

Pay

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

Schedule

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