# Senior Security Operations Engineer

**Company**: Brex
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,000 - $240,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## 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.

## Working at Brex

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

- Lead, scope and build features, participate in designing, and maintaining tools and systems which support the team’s domains – corporate security, detection & response and infrastructure security

- Collaborate and partner with engineering and operations teams to drive remediation of security issues, while balancing prioritization of those security issues within SLA and teams’ respective backlogs

- Care about secure system design, value 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 experience

- Experience 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.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD systems
- DevOps workflows
- Cloud environments
- Security services
- Go
- Python
- Coding

### Nice to have
- Proficiency with Go
- Securing distributed systems
- Contributions to the wider technical community

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