Senior Security Operations Engineer

Brex

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
56 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $176k
This role $216k
$117k most similar roles pay here $253k

This role pays more than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$202,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Brex

Brex is a financial technology company providing corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and expense management software designed specifically for startups and growing technology companies. Industry: Financial Technology & Corporate Banking

Brex currently has 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 61 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Operations Engineer

As a Senior Security Operations Engineer, you will join the Trust & IT organization to protect corporate and cloud environments from security threats. You will perform incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation while participating in threat hunting and security exercises. Your daily work involves building features and maintaining tools for corporate security, detection and response, and infrastructure security domains. To succeed, you must be proficient in coding with Go and Python to maintain internal tools. The role requires experience with CI/CD systems, DevOps workflows using Buildkite, Flux, Git, and Terraform, as well as managing SIEM, data pipelines, SOAR, and cloud security tools across AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will solve complex security challenges by collaborating with engineering teams to remediate issues within established SLAs while ensuring secure system design for financial services.

What you'll do

  • Prevent, detect, and respond to security threats across corporate and cloud environments.
  • Perform incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation for security events.
  • Participate in periodic threat hunting and security exercises.
  • Design, build, and maintain tools and systems for corporate security and infrastructure.
  • Partner with engineering teams to remediate security issues within established SLAs.
  • Develop and maintain internal tools using Go and Python.
  • Contribute to the team's open source projects and technical community engagement.

What we're looking for

  • Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training/fellowship.
  • Possess 5+ years of work experience in corporate security, detection and response, or infrastructure security roles.
  • Experience with security alert triage and incident response is required.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows like Buildkite, Flux, Git, and Terraform in cloud environments.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining security tools such as SIEM, data pipelines, SOAR, and endpoint tooling.
  • Proficiency in coding, specifically with Go and Python, to develop and maintain internal tools.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, diverse team environment.

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