Security Operations Center (SOC) Engineer

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz Y Combinator and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce bringing together community shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values and as a remote-first team we operate out of hubs within the US Canada UK Ireland and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports fashion video games and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

• Apply comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of Incident Response concepts principles and technical capabilities

• Collaborate across Information Security and business partners to ensure effective precise and rapid response

• Act as the point of escalation from within the Incident Response team to drive all cyber incidents

• Identify new detection opportunities create playbooks and support new technology implementations to defend against evolving threats

• Maintain awareness and understanding of the current threat landscape. Analyze threat intelligence with the aim to mitigate potential risks

• Report the overall health of the SOC via metrics OKRs and risk indicators to leadership

• Provide Incident Response (IR) support when analysis suspects security incidents to help contain and eradicate threats;

  • Perform incident triage incident response and forensic investigations across endpoints and cloud environments

  • Conduct technical examinations of computer-based evidence including logs packet captures SIEM & IDS events disk forensics malware analysis and more

  • Document incidents from initial detection through final resolution and present the findings

• Investigate document and report on cyber security issues

• Create and continuously improve standard processes operating procedures and incident response playbooks

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego a growth mindset and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next SOC Engineer you should have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in security preferably in a large enterprise environment plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Information Security a related field or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years’ experience in cyber incident response or a similar cyber field including experience with security principles and defense-in-depth techniques

• Experience and understanding of security concepts SOAR(Tines) EDR NDR and SIEM (Chronicle) technologies

• Experience with multiple Cloud Service Providers (AWS GCP)

• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to document communicate and report security incidents as well as the status of the implementation and effectiveness of cybersecurity controls with product and business leaders

• Expected to perform on-call duties

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)

• Health Insurance options including Medical Dental Vision

• Work From Home Support

  • $1000 home office setup allowance

  • $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • $450 monthly allowance on food

  • $500 monthly allowance for wellness

  • $5000 annual allowance towards Childcare

  • $20000 lifetime benefit for family planning such as adoption or fertility expenses

• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally

• Parental Leave

  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status parental status disability status or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage support and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.