[Hiring] Staff Security Engineer @6sense

Role Description

As a member of 6sense’s Security department, the Security Operations and Threat Management team protects 6sense through prevention, detection, investigation, and response to business-impacting security events, incidents, and threats.

• Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap.
• Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis.
• Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis.
• Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services.
• Perform security forensics.
• Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale.
• Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research.
• Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation.
• Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity.
• Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team.
• 3+ years of experience developing automation.
• 2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises.
• Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS).
• Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, PASTA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc.

Requirements

• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense’s product, environment, systems, and architecture.
• Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels.
• Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation.
• Mitigates security exposures.
• Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs.
• Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects.
• Executes on milestones associated with major security projects.
• Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards.
• Provides project status updates on a weekly basis.

Benefits

• Generous health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401K employer matching program.
• Paid holidays and self-care days.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Stock options if approved by 6sense’s board.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning platform for learning and development initiatives.
• Quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self-care and personal growth.