London or Dublin Hybrid

Circle is hiring a Principal Security Engineer, Detection and Response

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats.
  • Advance deployment of AI to SOC function.
  • Develop plans to manage and maintain 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.
  • Provide security guidance to various organizations throughout the company.
  • Support broader security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building.
  • Take on-call shifts (every 3rd week and occasional weekend).

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 10+ years of experience in detection, response, or security engineering.
  • 3+ years of experience commanding security incidents, especially those involving engineering.
  • Experience working in an AWS + EKS environment required and some exposure to GCP or OCI preferred.
  • 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.
  • Extensive knowledge of SIEM, Case Management, and SOAR solutions.
  • Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory on MacOS.
  • Programming experience in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages.
  • Experience with building Detections As Code.

Nice to Have

  • Professional or hobbyist blockchain exposure is preferred.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • This position will require you to perform on-call duties mainly during working hours to support security operations, and you will assist the team with the occasional night time and weekend incident.
Required Skills
SlackOperating SystemsPythonGo
About company
Circle
Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Its platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category security
Posted 6 months ago