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Security Engineer
| Company | Benchling |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $147900 – $160000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in Security Engineering or a related role, with exposure to various security tools and technologies.
- Experience writing code, designing systems and data workflows to support security data analytics.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and its associated security suites (e.g., IAM, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, etc)
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure technologies such as: Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kinesis.
- Relevant development experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python
- A collaborative mindset with the ability to work cross-functionally with other teams, including software and infrastructure engineering.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate security issues and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining security tools and infrastructure to support Benchling’s security mission.
- Collaborate with Product Security Engineers and Software Engineers to identify, design, and implement security features and controls in our AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Partnering with the multiple engineering teams on internal and customer facing security and privacy initiatives, ensuring that security data accessibility, quality, and reliability are taken into account.
- Support security detection and response efforts by contributing to detections, automation, and investigations.
- Evaluate and help integrate new security tools, both in-house and third-party, ensuring they meet Benchling’s security needs.
- Researching new detection mechanisms for attack vectors and techniques relevant to our space and presenting findings to both internal and external audiences.
- Developing set processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production.
- Partnering with Security Detection & Response Engineers during incident response and investigations.
- Contribute to the development of processes to ensure the quality and reliability of security data.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with security incident response or threat detection.
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools such as AWS ECS or Kubernetes and functions-as-a-service e.g. AWS Lambda.
- Contributions to the security community via talks, papers, blogs, projects, CVEs, etc.
