Security Engineer II Detection and Response

• 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.

• Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high-stress situations which sometimes involves after hours work.
• Ability 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.

• 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.

• View Security Detection & Response as a data and engineering problem.
• Exude positivity.
• Aren't afraid to share your ideas.
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities.
• Are self-reliant and motivated.
• Communicate fearlessly.

What We Do

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a global internet financial platform company powering the foundation of an open borderless and programmable economy. Circle connects financial institutions enterprises and developers to the next generation of the internet financial system through digital assets such as USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Supporting trillions of dollars in economic activity and serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide Circle enables value to move with the speed security and transparency of the internet. 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.

Why Work With Us

Our employees are treated as people first with a real purpose for being here. Circle has created an environment where people can thrive grow be challenged and constantly build on their career. It's this same environment that draws competitive strength from within our employee base.

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