Information Security Engineer 3

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At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We’re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work. We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.

 

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Job Description Summary:

As a Sr. Cloud Security Engineer, your will be responsible for ensuring we have the proper visibility, detection, and operations to protect Venmo and our customers. Your primary responsibilities will involve driving the roadmap and delivery of a comprehensive strategy to capture all critical stages, triggers, and activities within our product delivery and deployment pipeline as recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) DevSecOps Six Pillars strategy.

Job Description:

Venmo Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds!

But we’re only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we haven’t thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that’s going to take a lot of figuring out. Let’s figure it out together!

Cyber Security at Venmo

Join our highly proficient team of Security Engineers working to make Venmo more secure. Drive the building and adoption of new security tools and technologies while supporting day-to-day security activities from code reviews, vulnerability testing and remediation, incident handling and response, security monitoring and alerting and more. Come join a team driven to elevate Venmo’s security posture through innovation, automation, and excellence.

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

As a Sr. Cloud Security Engineer, your will be responsible for ensuring we have the proper visibility, detection, and operations to protect Venmo and our customers. Your primary responsibilities will involve driving the roadmap and delivery of a comprehensive strategy to capture all critical stages, triggers, and activities within our product delivery and deployment pipeline as recommended by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) DevSecOps Six Pillars strategy.

You will be expected to take into account our native tooling and existing processes while investigating and solving for best-in-class security automation in all stages of product  development and deployment lifecycle. You will lead, advocate, and assist in creating the tooling and infrastructure that drives our next-generation detection and response pipelines. You will work closely with teams across the company to provide tooling and automation to scale detection and response across all environments. As a member of our Cyber Security team, you will also aid and assist in a wide variety of efforts including secure infra-as-code reviews, DDoS mitigation, penetration testing, and other security responsibilities. You will partner with your fellow security engineers and developers to keep Venmo growing while keeping us secure!

What You’ll Do

Help drive our detection and response strategy across the Venmo enterprise

Ensure the team has proper visibility into logging sources

Respond to incidents both as an incident commander and contributor

Document and automate incident response playbooks

Partner with other engineering and operation teams to understand requirements for tooling and integrations

Develop tools or software and deploy infrastructure to enable new detection capabilities and automated response

Research emerging attack vectors and techniques

Work with other engineering teams to enable detections within their platforms and products

Mentor junior members of the team and act as a subject matter

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of related work experience in incident response and threat detection

Strong experience in Python, Go, Java, Javascript or similar to build security tools

Strong experience in securing services running public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Strong experience in integrating and deploying cloud-native applications in production

Strong experience in maintaining healthy operations of security tooling and infrastructure

Strong experience with industry tools and technologies such as Qualys, Tenable, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Graylog, OSQuery, OSSec, Sysdig, Twistlock, Aqua, etc.

Familiarity with audits and standards requirements such ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 1 & 2, etc.

Demonstrated technical experience in related security disciplines such as Appsec, intrusion detection and response, network security, infrastructure security, etc.

Strong ability to prioritize and track multiple projects in parallel

Previous experience working in collaborative security teams

Experience in implementing and scaling enterprise-grade and web-scale security programs in a dynamic and agile environment

Big plus for experience in speaking / publishing in relevant security conferences

Big plus if you have publicly released tools or modules

Extra bonus points for forensic analysis experience (logs, hosts, images, etc.)

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

Primary Location:

Scottsdale - N 90th St, Arizona, United States of America

Additional Locations:

Austin - W Parmer Ln, Chicago - Merchandise Mart Plaza

For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].