Paxos
Security Engineer, Detection and Response
Remote - United States · Mid
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About the role
- The Detection and Response Engineer at Paxos serves as a builder of the detections, hunts, and automations that protect our cloud infrastructure, crypto systems, endpoints, and network.
- You will write detections as code and automate response, and act as a purple teamer, emulating attacks alongside our Product Security teams to confirm our detections work.
- Our 24x7 SOC handles first-line triage, so your focus is the detection engineering, threat hunting, and validation that make our coverage effective.
Responsibilities
- Operational Efficiency: Build automations to accelerate investigation and triage
- create and maintain runbooks and incident write-ups that make response consistent and repeatable across the team.
- Operational Efficiency: Build automations to accelerate investigation and triage; create and maintain runbooks and incident write-ups that make response consistent and repeatable across the team.
- For technical roles, we do not perform a coding interview without prior screening by our engineering team
Requirements
- You have hands-on experience tuning detections in SIEM and EDR platforms to improve signal quality and reduce false positives, and can write or adapt detection rules from an existing template or pattern.
- You are a builder who looks for opportunities to automate repetitive work, including using AI and scripting (Python/Bash) to speed up investigations.
Benefits
- Detection Coverage & Quality: Ship production-grade detections as code with measurable signal improvements-reducing false positives and closing gaps identified in purple team exercises.
- You bring strong analytical judgment and a calm, methodical approach to triaging alerts and driving incidents through resolution, and you flag gaps in process or coverage as you find them.
Company info
- The Security team at Paxos protects the cloud infrastructure, crypto systems, endpoints, and network that our regulated financial platform runs on.
- You'll join the Detection and Response function, working alongside our 24x7 SOC, which handles first-line triage, and partnering with Product Security teams to validate that our coverage holds up against real attacker techniques.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For over a decade, we've built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world's leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal.
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