Incident Response Security Engineer

TL;DR

Incident Response Security Engineer: Responsible for developing processes, tooling, and automation to manage incident response and mitigate risks to the business for an open-source column-oriented database. Focus on threat modeling, improving detection mechanisms, and handling information security events across hirify.global products and services.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global is an open-source column-oriented database system.

What you will do

• Develop processes, tooling, and automation to scale incident management response and mitigate risks to the business
• Collaborate with security functions, engineering, product, support, and business operations to identify appropriate detection use cases and automation
• Apply a threat modeling centric approach to incident detection and response
• Maintain security logging platform and stay up to date with the latest threats and attack vectors to improve detection mechanisms and attack surface management
• Handle information security events and incidents across hirify.global products and services

Requirements

• Background in product security / red teaming / penetration testing / threat modeling, combined with incident detection and response experience
• Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience securing large-scale customer-facing cloud infrastructures
• Significant development and automation experience; preference for Golang and Python

Nice to have

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Previous contributions to open source projects
• Security or cloud related certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment - hirify.global is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly, operating in 20 countries.
• Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Every new team member receives stock options.
• Flexible time off, with generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.