Security Engineer

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. About the Role: We are looking for an experienced security engineer to join our infrastructure security engineering team with a strong focus on detection and response. You will have a unique opportunity to leverage your threat detection and response experience and build some of the foundational systems and services to keep our infrastructure free from malicious actors and threats. You will partner closely with all engineering teams, IT administrators, and compliance analysts to ensure that we maintain sufficient visibility into our environments and develop effective programs and practices to ensure that our environments are always secure. Tooling and automation will be key to success as we scale our environments to meet customer demand. We intend to be the world's best, fastest, and most complete stream processing service built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey! What You Will Do: Collaborate with engineering teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry. Build and maintain an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution. Develop detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure that our critical infrastructure and services operate in a safe environment. Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing its potential impact to Confluent. Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents. Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape. Proactively improve the quality of our detection rules and strive to eliminate classes of issues by working directly with engineering teams. Contribute to strategy, risk management and prioritization for all efforts around detection and response. What You Will Bring: 3+ years of relevant industry experience. Strong domain knowledge in security incident detection and response. Hands-on experience in instrumenting and deploying telemetry solutions to ensure visibility in large-scale, heterogenous deployments. Demonstrated experience with effective incident response and containment practices, preferably in a cloud-first environment. Experience with operating open-source and/or commercial solutions for logging and security event management. Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy. Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders. Ability to manage competing priorities and workload. Ability to script or code fluently in an interpreted language. Experience with serverless deployments in AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus. Come As You Are At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $139,230 - $163,620, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE ( . Click HERE ( to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees. #LI-Remote

Created: 2024-11-05