Senior Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest. 
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
As a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Detection and Response you will be responsible for the detection strategy, creation, tuning, validation, and correlation to ensure that we have effective detections in place against an ever-changing threat landscape. This role is hands-on, carrying the responsibility of running the day-to-day security operations tasks including management of SIEM, automation platform, detection engineering platform and helping incident response. 
Reporting into the Sr Director, Security Operations, the ideal candidate will maintain and enhance a consistent and reliable operational security environment and take a proactive security monitoring approach. This role has high visibility and requires a technical individual who can partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, SRE, IT, Legal, etc) and has the ability to adapt in a dynamic security landscape. 

Your day-to-day:

• Responsible for building and expanding detection capabilities across a variety of platforms
• Responsible for security event monitoring, management and response, workflows and tasks
• Improve security monitoring and operational tasks by developing measurement capabilities and metrics to track and communicate performance, coverage and risk
• Evaluate existing SIEM rules, filters, events and use cases and adapt them to meet the business requirements
• Mature security operations; drive integration of new log sources, tools and services
• Create, maintain and manage a library of automated playbooks for security tasks and workflows
• Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives
• Assist the Security Incident Response Program with related matters resulting from security investigations
• Participate in key security initiatives as the Subject Matter Expert to ensure alignment with strategies and roadmap
• Develop standard operating procedures and other appropriate documentation to enforce quality and consistency of services being delivered
• Support ongoing security compliance, audit, and certification programs (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, SOC2)

What you’ll bring to …