Security and Threat Operations Engineer

TL;DR

Security and Threat Operations Engineer (Fintech): Building and tuning detections, alerts, and monitoring workflows across cloud, application, identity, and edge environments with an accent on threat hunting, incident response, and vulnerability management. Focus on investigating security events, developing Python automation, and partnering with engineering teams to harden production systems against malicious activity.

Location: United States (Remote)

Salary: $140K – $190K

Company

Consumer fintech platform providing banking, high-yield savings, credit cards, point-of-sale lending, investing, and crypto services to millions of Americans.

What you will do

• Build and tune detections, alerts, and monitoring workflows across cloud, application, identity, and edge environments.
• Review traffic patterns across APIs, authentication flows, and WAF telemetry to identify malicious activity and abuse.
• Use AI for triage, analysis, and automation while defining guardrails for AI systems.
• Operate vulnerability management program by triaging, prioritizing, and remediating findings from Wiz and scans.
• Develop Python tooling for investigations, enrichment, response, and operational scale.
• Investigate security events end-to-end and support 24x7 on-call incident response.

Requirements

• 5+ years in information security, threat detection, security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, ideally cloud-native.
• Strong experience investigating suspicious activity in web, API, authentication, and infrastructure telemetry.
• Strong Python programming for automation, enrichment, and security tooling.
• Experience building detections in SIEM and working with observability like CloudWatch or Datadog.
• Experience with vulnerability management triage, prioritization, and remediation.
• Familiarity with Wiz for cloud and application security findings, AWS preferred.
• Knowledge of identity systems, threat modeling, and AI risks in security workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options.
• Health benefits from Day 1, 401(k) with company match.
• Remote-friendly (US), flexible time-off, paid parental and caregiver leave.
• High-growth, mission-driven, inclusive culture with real impact.

Hiring process

• Initial Interview with Talent Partner.
• Technical or Hiring Manager Interview.
• Team Interview.
• Executive Interview.
• Offer.