Senior Security Engineer

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence and High Integrity. Circlers are consistently evolving in a remote world where strength in numbers fuels team success. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely. The security team leads the company’s programs for information security, insider risk and cybersecurity. As a member of this team, you’ll lead projects and be responsible for the upkeep of the team’s technology stack as well as creation of log pipelines that feed our SIEM, SOAR, TIP and other security tools and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program.

4+ years of experience as a security engineer, site reliability engineer, devops/cloudops engineer or systems engineer with a minimum of two years (can be overlapping) a focus on cybersecurity or incident handling.
Enthusiasm for scalable, reproducible security management.
Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance.
Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams during high-stress situations.
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgement to establish order of priorities on the fly.
Deep knowledge of incident response, and incident management.
Experience with SIEM and SOAR solutions.
Experience working in financial services or financial technology desired.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity or related field; equivalent experience also accepted.
Experience working in an AWS environment with Terraform is strongly desired.
Demonstrated experience with SQL and Python (or other similar language) is required.
Experience in a MacOS environment is preferred.