Senior Threat Response Engineer

Summary

Join Red Canary's Threat Response Engineering team as a Threat Response Engineer and be the defender against adversaries. You will analyze, contain, and remediate threats in customer environments using Red Canary's detection platform. Provide comprehensive reports to customers, identify effective response strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will actively engage with customers during setup and response activities, mentor peers, and support product improvement. This role requires experience responding to security events, strong analytical skills, mastery of EDR products, and a deep understanding of operating systems and network communication. The targeted base salary is $134,000 - $136,875 per year, with eligibility for bonuses and stock options.

Requirements

• Experience responding to security events/threats
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A mastery of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) products including CarbonBlack, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, and Palo Alto Cortex
• Strong experience with or familiarity with Identity security products
• Deep understanding of the internal system functionality of Windows and MacOS operating systems and network communication
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology, network controls, and security operations
• Experience and enjoyment of working in a fast-paced, operational environment and successfully prioritize important tasks
• Professional and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Deep interest in understanding and staying current with the latest adversary tactics and techniques
• The ability to support an on-call rotation

Responsibilities

• Use Red Canary’s detection platform, detected threat information, and our customers’ security products to analyze, contain, and remediate threats in the customers’ environments
• Provide customers with comprehensive reports of the investigation and actions taken to ensure they understand what you did to clean up their environment and protect them from further damage
• Identify effective response strategies to further enhance Red Canary’s customers’ security posture
• Actively engage and collaborate with the Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, and Intel teams to develop new ways of performing timely remediation of identified threats
• Be directly involved with and support cross-functional teams during customer security incidents
• Engage with customers and cross-functional teams during the setup of Active Remediation and response activity
• Be a mentor to peers and other members of the team while also leading team projects
• Support product improvement through collaboration with team leadership by providing insights and recommendations
• Support management through operational day to day leadership and assembling information related to the product offering

Benefits

• 100% Paid Premiums- Red Canary pays 100% of your medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents. No waiting period
• Fertility Benefits- All new hires are eligible for benefits as of their first day
• Flexible Time Off- Take the vacation and sick time you need
• Health Reimbursement Account- Fully funded by Red Canary to offset out of pocket expenses such as deductibles, coinsurance and copays
• Flexible Work Environment- With 60% remote workforce, Canaries can work from virtually almost anywhere
• Paid Parental Leave- Full base pay to bond/care for your new child
• This role is also eligible for participation in the company's bonus program
• Eligible for a grant of stock options, subject to the approval of the company's board of directors