Staff Product Security Operations Engineer (Detection and Response)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Affirm recognizes that security is essential to the company’s ongoing success. Our mission is to cultivate a culture of security at Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products. The Security Operations (Sec Ops) program is the foundation of both preventive and responsive security practices to protect Affirm’s assets from an adverse security event. 

As a member of the Security Team at Affirm, you will be joining a team of fun, passionate and highly skilled individuals who like solving security challenges and enjoy learning new skills. We partner together with a team first mindset and are keen on redefining security in the fintech space. 

We're seeking a Staff Security Operations (Sec Ops) Engineer who will help us build and mature the Security Operations Engineering program including Logging, Detection, and Response. 

This is a hands-on role where we are looking for engineering experience securing cloud environments. You will also participate in on-call duties along with the rest of the team and serve as engineering escalation point for the team. 

You will collaborate with internal Security teams (such as Platform Security, Corporate Security) and external teams (such as Infrastructure, Observability, Privacy/Compliance) to create and improve existing security operations capabilities. You will partner with these teams to solve complex security problems and design solutions that are aligned with broader organizational goals. 

What You'll Do

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader to mature our Logging & Detection Engineering program. 
• Build and enhance our logging pipeline to ingest the right data sources that improve our visibility. 
• Contribute to our detection program by writing advanced detections based on frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. 
• Continuously tune detections to improve our detection fidelity and calibrate signals to maximize value while minimizing noise. 
• Contribute to engineering projects by building, maintaining and improving our tooling. 
• Drive monitoring, detection and response and remediation for security incidents. 
• Be a senior escalation point for the team when needed in investigations and incidents particularly from an engineering escalation perspective. 
• Build automation and integrations between tools when needed to help improve logging, detection and response workflows. 
• Contribute to developing and maturing security incident response playbooks and processes.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams across Affirm and lead key Security projects. 

What We Look For

• A seasoned Security Operations Engineer with at least 5+ years of experience in Detection and Response with a significant engineering focus in a cloud heavy environment (AWS or similar). 
• Experience with developing native data ingestion and data normalization integrations to aid the Sec Ops monitoring & Detection program. 
• Hands-on experience handling investigative, containment and remediation actions across environments and the ability to partner with Infrastructure, SRE teams during incidents. 
• Demonstrated experience in common Sec Ops tooling including but not limited to: Elastic, Splunk, Hive, Crowdstrike Falcon or similar. 
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or similar).
• Experience in creating automations to improve IR program workflows and capabilities (Python preferred). 
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) including experience developing and deploying cloud services using Terraform.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to switch communication styles when needed between engineering and non-engineering audiences. 
• Ability to lead and drive large projects and work with cross functional stakeholders throughout the Engineering organization. 
• Experience in building actionable threat intelligence & hunting programs is always a bonus!
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 13

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

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