What you’ll be responsible for:

In 2020, Circle unveiled Circle APIs: a set of solutions and smarter technology to help businesses accept payments in a more global, scalable and efficient alternative to traditional banking rails (spoiler: we’re using USD Coin under the hood). The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely.  As a member of this team, you’ll lead projects and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program while collaborating across Circle teams.  You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment.

What you'll work on:

• Drive development and improvements in Security Incident and Event Management, Case Management, and Automation.
• Proactively Identify and respond to emerging security threats.
• Act as incident Coordinator during high priority incidents.
• Work with internal and external partners to obtain actionable intelligence to protect the firm.
• Develop detection techniques to identify anomalous behaviors and attacks across the environment.
• Mentor and provide security guidance to various organizations throughout the company.
• Support wider security team projects such as threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, audits, and custom tool building.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high-stress situations.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgment to establish order of priorities on the fly.
• Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite.

We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• 7+ years experience in security operations such as investigations or Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR).
• Solid experience in using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
• Exposure to programming, scripting and query languages such as Python, Golang, bash, SQL.
• Knowledge of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and familiarity of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
• Exposure to Malware analysis & reverse engineering.

You are the right person if you:

• View Security Detection & Response as a data and engineering problem.
• Exude positivity.
• Aren't afraid to share your ideas.
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities.
• Are self-reliant and motivated.
• Communicate fearlessly.