Senior Security Operations Engineer

Brex

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
102 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $149,443–$213,678 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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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 83 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 79 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Operations Engineer

The Senior Security Operations Engineer joins the Security Operations team within the Trust & IT organization to prevent, detect, and respond to security threats across corporate and cloud environments. This role involves performing security incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation while participating in periodic threat hunting and security exercises. You will lead, scope, and build features for tools supporting corporate security, detection and response, and infrastructure security domains. Key responsibilities include collaborating with engineering and operations teams to remediate security issues within SLAs. Required skills include experience with CI/CD systems, DevOps workflows, and cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP. You must be proficient in deploying SIEM, SOAR, and endpoint tooling while possessing coding experience in Go and Python to maintain internal security tools.

What you'll do

  • Prevent, detect, and respond to security threats across corporate and cloud environments.
  • Perform security incident response, investigation, remediation, and detailed documentation.
  • Participate in periodic threat hunting and security exercises.
  • Design, build, and maintain tools for corporate security, detection, and infrastructure security.
  • Partner with engineering teams to remediate security issues within established SLAs.
  • Develop and maintain security tools using Go and Python.
  • Improve security configurations and drive positive employee behaviors across the organization.
  • Contribute to the team's open source project and the Brex Tech Blog.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or 5+ years of work experience.
  • Experience in a corporate security, detection & response, or infrastructure security role with responsibilities for alert triage and incident response.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows such as Buildkite, Flux, Git, and Terraform in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining security services including SIEM, data pipelines, SOAR, domain monitoring, endpoint tooling, and cloud security tools.
  • Experience with coding is required to develop and maintain tools written in Go and Python.
  • Proficiency with Go and other programming languages (preferred).
  • Experience with securing distributed systems in AWS, cloud, and Kubernetes environments (preferred).
  • Contributions to the wider technical community through open source, research, mentorship, blogging, or presentations (preferred).

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