Ripple
Senior Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$172k-$215kDetected 22 days ago
PythonRESTData EngineeringCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySIEMSOARSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCollaborationProblem Solving
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About the role
- It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it.
- And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.
- THE WORK: As a Senior Security Engineer on the Security Operations team, you will help Ripple detect, investigate, and respond to security threats across our environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and tune detections across our security stack (Google Security Operations) to improve our ability to identify and mitigate threats.
- Lead incident response for sophisticated and high-severity investigations, from initial triage through root cause and remediation.
- Build and maintain security automation workflows (e.g., in Tines) that reduce manual toil in detection, triage, and response.
- Develop cross-functional relationships (IT, engineering, other Ripple teams) to influence security initiatives and drive adoption of security tooling.
- Strong scripting/automation skills (Python or SOAR) - comfortable building and maintaining automation for response workflows and working with REST APIs to connect security tools.
- We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, with a track record of owning incident response and detection work end-to-end.
- Experience with SIEM platforms and security data pipelines (e.g., Google SecOps) - you understand log source onboarding, parsing, and alert tuning, not just querying.
- Hands-on experience with EDR, identity, email security, and network security tooling at a level where you can extend and tune the tooling, not just operate it.
Compensation
- For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below.
- CA Annual Base Salary Range
- $172,000 - $215,000 USD
Benefits
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.
- A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Mobile phone stipend
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies.
- Family planning benefits.
- Own and improve SIEM/data pipeline health, including log source coverage, parsing/normalization, and alert quality.
- Maintain awareness of the evolving threat landscape and translate that awareness into concrete improvements to our detection coverage and response playbooks.
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
Company info
- Do Your Best Work
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
- Take Control of Your Finances
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Take Care of Yourself
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- plicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, militar
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