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Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Mercury

Full-time
USA, Canada
$170k-$222k per year
engineer
infosec
python
architecture
autocad
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Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking* experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. 

Infosec - It’s a journey, not a destination. By joining our team, you will be joining the adventure and building pipelines to detect and respond to the ever changing threat landscape. Our team is growing and we’re looking to hire a pivotal role in our defensive strategy. We are seeking a talented, proactive person to join our dynamic and highly cross functional team.

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

  • Monitor, analyze and respond to incidents

  • Contribute to building and refining SIEM tools, logging and architecture

  • Identify weaknesses in our logs (where is the story missing)

  • Develop detection models and response automations

  • Participate in incident response

  • Manage and maintain security tools

You should:

  • Have 3-5+ years of experience in Information Security with focus on incident response, threat hunting, and creating detection signatures.

  • Possess real-world experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale

  • Working knowledge of threat modeling, and attack vectors.

  • Exposure to software development, including GitHub change management, unit testing, pair programming.

  • Python (or any scripting language) experience is preferred.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

  • US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $188,500- $221,800USD

  • US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $169,700 - $199,600 USD

  • Canadian employees (any location): CAD 171,500 - 201,800.

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

 

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Full-time
USA, Canada
$170k-$222k per year
Posted 6 months ago
engineer
infosec
python
architecture
autocad
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Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Mercury
The job listing has expired. Unfortunately, the hiring company is no longer accepting new applications.

To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking* experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. 

Infosec - It’s a journey, not a destination. By joining our team, you will be joining the adventure and building pipelines to detect and respond to the ever changing threat landscape. Our team is growing and we’re looking to hire a pivotal role in our defensive strategy. We are seeking a talented, proactive person to join our dynamic and highly cross functional team.

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

  • Monitor, analyze and respond to incidents

  • Contribute to building and refining SIEM tools, logging and architecture

  • Identify weaknesses in our logs (where is the story missing)

  • Develop detection models and response automations

  • Participate in incident response

  • Manage and maintain security tools

You should:

  • Have 3-5+ years of experience in Information Security with focus on incident response, threat hunting, and creating detection signatures.

  • Possess real-world experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale

  • Working knowledge of threat modeling, and attack vectors.

  • Exposure to software development, including GitHub change management, unit testing, pair programming.

  • Python (or any scripting language) experience is preferred.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

  • US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $188,500- $221,800USD

  • US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $169,700 - $199,600 USD

  • Canadian employees (any location): CAD 171,500 - 201,800.

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

 

#LI-DNI

 

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