Staff Security Engineer - Detect & Response - Remote

Overview

This role is pivotal in enhancing Marqeta’s ability to detect and respond to threats. You will contribute to the design, documentation, and implementation of a security detection engineering program, participate in on-call rotations and incident response efforts, and collaborate with various teams to assess detection gaps across Marqeta.

In Short

• Perform detection engineering and regularly write/maintain detection logic to identify suspicious activity
• Document and track detection capabilities across numerous data sources
• Work with team leadership to define and report metrics related to detection capabilities and effectiveness
• Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation for alert response
• Be an active responder as part of the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team during declared incidents
• Contribute to automation and orchestration playbooks to streamline detection engineering, threat hunting and incident response activities
• Participate in threat hunts to proactively identify threats in our corporate and market environments
• Regularly review current use cases/detection logic to identify and remove gaps in coverage

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on, in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations, including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and/or threat intelligence
• Strong technical foundation and understanding of security concepts, solutions and technologies; experience with enterprise security services such as EDR, SIEM technologies, and SOAR platforms is essential
• Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and how to utilise them in the assessment of detection capabilities and coverage
• Skilled in identifying opportunities for developing new threat detection use cases based on security telemetry, environment baselining, actionable threat intelligence and Incident Response lessons learned
• Ability to identify gaps in our detection coverage across global infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility and control through logging and detection content
• Strong understanding of AWS and containerization technologies
• Experience with Terraform

Benefits

• Premium Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Generous time off program with additional “Floating Holiday days”
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual development stipend to support our people growth and development
• Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
• Wellbeing programs i.e. Modern Health, HealthKick and much more…