Staff Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Operations

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Cybersecurity Operations is a budding team within Detection & Response, the organization responsible for protecting Cruise and our customers from internal and external threats.

As the team’s Staff Security Engineer, you will partner closely with the Engineering Manager and play a key role in setting and driving the technical direction of the team. As the most senior engineer on the team, you will lead and mentor a small team of security engineers responsible for supporting a vast portfolio of internal and third-party solutions that are key to securing Cruise. They span cloud security, network traffic visibility, endpoint detection and response, email threat protection, data loss prevention, SOAR, and data lakes. In parallel, you will develop and lead new functions spanning threat intelligence, attacker deception, incident retrospective management, attack documentation and visualization, and digital forensics lab management.

Applicants should be excited to solve hard problems, employ their outstanding communication skills, and lead and mentor others. You should possess extensive experience deploying and maintaining security solutions as well as familiarity with incident response and/or digital forensics. You should stand out on your team as a top performer, innovator, and leader.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Serve as the technical lead for a small team of engineers

• Support Cruise’s ability to respond to threats by designing solutions, selecting technologies, deploying and implementing security products, and improving the configuration of existing toolsets

• Automate manual tasks and processes with a heavy emphasis on repeatability, scalability, and auditability

• Migrate legacy solutions and spearhead the architecture of new solutions with a cloud-native mindset

• Partner with outside vendors to ensure that Threat Defense systems are resilient, hardened, optimally configured, and properly integrated as well as influence their product roadmap

• Curate and manage a corpus of threat intelligence used to enrich detections, profile threats, and enable incident responders

• Aggregate metrics (i.e. Mean Time to Detect, Mean Time to Contain, etc.) from incident response processes for the purposes of improving operation and developing the program

• Evaluate the posture of Threat Defense and proactively identify opportunities to optimize and automate

• Ensure modern engineering standards and concepts are adopted and followed, and the quality of the product offerings are at a high bar

• Identify, build, and support relationships with key cross-functional partners within and outside of Security to foster a collaborative culture

• Drive long-term planning and establish scalable processes for execution

• Embody Cruise behaviors and values: Stay Safe, Own It, Stay Focused, Seek Truth, Work Together, Be a Customer, Be Humble

WHAT YOU MUST HAVE:

• Moderate experience responding to incidents with varying degrees of severity and complexity

• Recent and significant experience writing code (preferably, Python and/or Go) in a production environment, and the ability to pass a challenging coding interview

• Experience with deployment, operations, and maintenance of open-source and commercial security tools across incident response, digital forensics, attacker deception, and/or threat intelligence programs

• Hands-on experience and/or familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps principles, concepts, and technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Datadog, Github, Chef, CI/CD, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with major Cloud Service Providers (i.e. Azure, GCP, and AWS) and provisioning their services

• Demonstrated history of mentoring junior engineers 

• Track record of shipping well-polished deliverables to senior management

BONUS POINTS!

• Fluency in SQL for querying complex data sets

• Experience with MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND matrices

• Experience performing data collection and analysis in cloud environments

• Experience developing automation in support of incidents and investigations

• Experience performing analysis within EDR solutions (i.e. Carbon Black, CrowdStrike Falcon)

• Contributions to the security community (open source, public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)

The salary range for this position is $197,600 - 290,400. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• One Medical membership
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match 
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays. 
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks 
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.

• We’re Integrated
• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

• We’re Funded
• GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price & Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.

• We’re Independent
• We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.

• We’re Vested
• You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
• Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO) - a unique equity program where employees, both current and former, have the option to sell any amount of their vested equity on a recurring basis, currently quarterly.

• We’re Safety Conscious
  • We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. 

We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

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