Senior Security Engineer II

Details

• Collaborate with engineering teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry.
• Build and maintain an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution.
• Develop detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure that our critical infrastructure and services operate in a safe environment.
• Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing its potential impact to Confluent.
• Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents.
• Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape.
• Proactively improve the quality of our detection rules and strive to eliminate classes of issues by working directly with engineering teams.
• Contribute to strategy, risk management and prioritization for all efforts around detection and response.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong domain knowledge in security incident detection and response.
• Hands-on experience in instrumenting and deploying telemetry solutions to ensure visibility in large-scale, heterogenous deployments.
• Demonstrated experience with effective incident response and containment practices, preferably in a cloud-first environment.
• Experience with operating open-source and/or commercial solutions for logging and security event management.
• Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy.
• Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and workload.
• Ability to script or code fluently in an interpreted language.
• Experience with serverless deployments in AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.