Information Security Intern

Ibotta is seeking an Information Security Intern to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission toMake Every Purchase Rewarding. As a participant in our 2024 Summer Internship, you will have the opportunity to fully integrate with your team to directly contribute to ongoing Ibotta business initiatives. In addition to the daily time with your team, you will participate in ongoing teach outs curated to help build skills essential to transitioning into the workforce and building your career. We are looking for candidates who are eager to learn, excited to work on real-world business challenges, and want to be part of a mission-driven company.

This will be a full-time, 12 week, internship during the summer of 2024. This is a hybrid position located in Denver, Colorado and requires 3 days in-office per week. Required in-office hybrid days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Candidates must live in the United States.

Applications will be open September 25 - October 1, October 11 - October 13, and October 23 - October 29.

What you will be doing:

• Researching emerging threat actors and exploits and helping us mature our monitoring capabilities to alert on such incidents.

• Familiarizing yourself with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and identifying potential points of weakness in our threat landscape.

• Working with our SIEM tool to refine and create alerting and monitoring to enhance our threat detection and reporting capabilities. 

• Act as Level 1 alert triage where you will learn how to analyze security alerts and perform investigations.

• Collaborating with our third party Security Operations Center on alert tuning and day-to-day administration of our SIEM.

• Creating and updating architecture diagrams for data flows for our security tooling.

• Assisting with periodic endpoint detection policy reviews and pushing updates to our fleet as necessary

• Working and learning about our existing security tools to evaluate and optimize to improve efficiencies

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, and A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• Juniors working towards a bachelor’s degree with a focus in Cybersecurity or related field

• Proven ability to think creatively and implement ideas from start to finish

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Hunger to learn and collaborate with your teammates

• Functional understanding and experience with cloud-based computing solutions (Github, AWS)

• Familiarity with at least one programming language, namely for interacting with relational databases (i.e. SQL).

• Familiarity with penetration testing tools (port scanners, packet analyzers, application security scanners, etc). 

• Interest in incident response and analyzing cyber attacks

About Us:

Built and headquartered in Denver, Colo., Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a performance marketing platform that allows brands to deliver digital promotions to millions of consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). Ibotta’s network allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale.

Guided by our values and our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we build, the innovative people we work (and have fun) with, and the consumers we get to help. To date, we have credited consumers $1.5B.

Ibotta was named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row, after debuting on the list in 2018. The company has also been named as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post four consecutive times, made BuiltIn Colorado’s Best Places to Work list three years in a row and appeared on Inc.’s list of Best Workplaces in 2017 and 2023.

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Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay and housing assistance for out of state students.

• The hourly compensation for this role is: $33 per hour worked. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard with race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels