Senior Insider Threat Engineer
PayPal
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Scottsdale • Arizona • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $123,500 - $183,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
- Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
- Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
- Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
- Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.
Requirements
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience in systems engineering, computer science, information systems, or other technical/behavioral degree related to the critical thinking disciplines of inspection, investigation, enforcement, and compliance
- Knowledge of insider risk indicators, including writing detection rules in SIEM (or other related tools)
- Ability to multi-task, manage, organize volume and variety of topics
- Actively aware of the insider threat landscape, and understand the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive information and situations
- Effective problem-solving abilities with key stakeholders and partners on control gaps
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with infrastructure, IT, and response teams to design and implement technical controls
- Discreet, thoughtful, and seek to coordinate systemic, cross functional solutions to mitigate risk
- Ability to translate complex problems into readily implemented and preferably automated solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Linking disparate information such that it can be aggregated, visualized, and interpreted for indications of threat (via query builds, table joins, etc.)
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- parental and family leave
- 401(k) savings plan
- paid time off
- employee shares options
- flexible work environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
security best practicessystems engineeringcomputer scienceinformation systemsdetection rulesSIEMtechnical controlsproblem-solvingquery buildstable joins
Soft skills
cross-functional collaborationeffective communicationdiscretioncritical thinkingorganizational skillsinformed decision-makingadaptabilitycontinuous improvementinfluencemulti-tasking