About the role
What will you do at Brex?
Why join us
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter
and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards
and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex
enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time
visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and
world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers
so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best
companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid,
Reddit, and SeatGeek.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and
collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to
building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should
only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering
you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
Engineering at Brex
Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and
intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with
high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our
outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to
deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders
become leaders.
What you’ll do
As a Security Operations Engineer at Brex, you will focus on preventing,
detecting and responding to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud
environments. You will use existing systems and develop tools to improve our
security capabilities. Our team is responsible for functions across corporate
security, detection & response and infrastructure security domains; and we
perform systems engineering and automation to support those functions.
Security Operations is part of our wider Trust & IT organization which means you
will have the opportunity to work closely with Application Security, Corporate
Engineering, GRC and IT and to improve security configurations, drive positive
employee behaviors and generally work to prevent events from becoming incidents.
You will also help build and maintain our team’s open source project Substation
[https://medium.com/brexeng/announcing-substation-188d049d979b] and have the
opportunity to contribute to the Brex Tech Blog [https://medium.com/brexeng].
You’ll be part of a team that actively contributes to the wider security
community and has a commitment to mentorship and engineering excellence.
We’re looking for individuals with a strong background and interest in
detecting, responding to, and resolving security incidents and security
challenges. You should be comfortable dealing with lots of moving pieces,
changing priorities, and new technologies, while having a keen eye for detail.
Most importantly, you should be enthusiastic about working with a variety of
backgrounds, roles, and people across Brex. Building a world-class financial
service requires world-class security.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment
that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the
benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of
three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Responsibilities
- * Work on a highly cross-functional team to prevent, detect and respond to
- security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments
- * Perform security incident response, investigation, remediation, and
- documentation, participate in periodic threat hunting and security exercises
- * Leading, scoping and building features, participate in designing, and
- maintaining tools and systems which support the team’s domains – corporate
- security, detection & response and infrastructure security
- * Collaborating and partnering with engineering and operations teams to drive
- remediation of security issues, while balancing prioritization of those
- security issues within SLA and teams’ respective backlogs
- * Caring about secure system design, valuing building things correctly, an
- understanding of a MVP approach and an empathetic mindset when working with
- others
Requirements
- * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR
- equivalent training / fellowship OR 5+ years work experienceExperience
- working in a corporate security, detection & response or infrastructure
- security role with responsibilities for security alert triage and security
- incident response
- * Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows (e.g. Buildkite, Flux,
- Git, Terraform) in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- * Experience with deploying and maintaining some of the security services and
- tools owned by the team (e.g. - SIEM, data pipelines, SOAR, domain
- monitoring, endpoint tooling, email protection tooling, cloud security tools)
- * While not primarily a development role, the team develops and maintains tools
- written in Go and Python, so experience with coding is required
- * You thrive in a collaborative environment filled with a diverse group of
- people with different expertise and backgrounds. We currently have around 30
- nationalities represented with more than ½ the company working in a country
- different from the one they grew up in.
- Bonus points
- * Proficiency with Go and other programming languages
- * Experience with securing distributed systems in AWS, cloud and Kubernetes
- environments
- * Contributions to the wider technical community (open source, public research,
- mentorship, community organizing, blogging, presentations, etc)
Compensation
The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the
starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s
location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending
on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided
as part of a total compensation package.
Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors
looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or
email with a brex.com [http://brex.com/] domain. Any outreach claiming to be
from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
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