Network Security Engineer - Remote

Company Description

PayNearMe develops award-winning technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to manage and accept payments. The company enables more ways to pay by offering all major payment types and channels in a single platform. PayNearMe is the technology company that’s changing how payments are made.

We are a diverse and collaborative company that loves to delight its customers (clients, consumers, etc.) with simple, useful and practical product/service offerings. PayNearMe has over 200 employees, closed a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and is processing over $1B in payments monthly. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the US. Help us reimagine payments.

PayNearMe is looking to add a talented and experienced Network Security Engineer reporting to our Chief Information Security Officer.

Job Description

• Support and enhance the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) program by monitoring, analyzing, and responding to threats, utilizing a variety of analytical tools, data science methodologies, and incident handling guidelines in line with NIST standards.
• Proactively identify threats by analyzing network traffic and logs (e.g., host, network, firewall, IDS) to maintain situational awareness and provide enterprise visibility. Create and recommend mitigation strategies for identified vulnerabilities across networks, systems, software, and hardware.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for critical security operations, incident handling, and applying security controls. Work closely with the Engineering and MDR teams to manage access controls and implement SIEM tools for threat detection and response.
• Conduct digital evidence recovery and analysis for legal or organizational needs. Integrate stakeholder feedback into recovery action plans and customize communication to address specific audience concerns.
• Play an active role in cyber incident response, from artifact collection to mitigation of potential incidents, working with managers, responders, and cybersecurity teams to effectively communicate the event's impact and coordinate action plans.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years in cybersecurity, including 3 years in a leadership role within a security operations center or MDR program.
• Demonstrated expertise in cybersecurity threat detection and incident response, with a strong background in managing vulnerabilities and cyber events.
• Solid understanding of investigative processes, defense mechanisms, and experience in conducting root cause analysis.
• Proficient in applying recovery action plans and adapting to new developments. Familiarity with common security compliance frameworks (CIS, ISO, PCI, SOC2, NIST) and vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7).
• Experience with AWS security principles, common AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, S3, VPC), and general networking security principles, including firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention.
• Working knowledge of Jira for ticket management and documentation, as well as DataDog or similar log aggregation services.

Additional Information

Benefits

• Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays
• 4-6x / year in-person team meet-ups 

Salary Range: $200,000 - 230,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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