Insider Risk Monitoring & Triage Security Engineer

Company Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Block, Inc. is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD54566975, and our foundational teams such as Counsel, Finance, and People that provide guidance at the corporate level. These are our building blocks, united by our shared purpose of economic empowerment. We’re creating tools to help expand access to the economy.

The Block Security team works with other teams across Block to build world-class products for both customers and employees. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that every experience with Block is simple, secure, and safe.

Job Description

The Insider Risk Program contributes to the overall mission through mitigation of risk related to insider activity. The program has both strategic and tactical responsibilities; this position is focused on detection, incident response, signals development, and security pipeline engineering. This position will work closely with our Detection and Response Team on a daily basis. You will prioritize work using an attack-driven defensive approach to prioritize our preventive controls, detective controls, and response programs based on real-world attacker behaviors. We strongly focus on automating the detection of, and response to, various attack techniques. Also, we proactively hunt for threats in the environment and are responsible for investigations into potential compromise. As an Insider Risk Security Engineer, your primary focus areas will be around monitoring, triage, and investigations management.
 

You will:

• Operate in a trusted position focused on protecting customer data from internal risks.
• Monitor and triage events and alerts through intrusion detection queues, internal Slack channels, vulnerability reports, and other data sources across our ecosystem
• Support day-to-day alert investigation and response activities, as well as own and drive the resolution of complex security incidents and investigations. Activity includes log analysis, potential data leaks, cloud detections, unusual logins, supporting detection tuning, and threat-hunting
• Facilitate the creation and or refinement of security policies, runbooks, security metrics, standards, baselines, and guidelines
• Lead team and cross-team projects focused on runbook, process, and insider risk maturity
• Develop and adjust automations, scripts, and security tool configurations to drive efficiencies and enhance insider investigations
• Identify opportunities to improve investigation and triage response processes, engineering workflows, and potential efficiency gains via automations
• Advise on continuous process improvement via introducing new tools, technologies, practices to help the team scale, and strengthen our security posture
• Lead and participate in tabletop exercises across diverse business areas and geographies to ensure operational readiness

Qualifications

You have:

• 3+ years of relevant systems, networking, forensics tools, and security experience
• Strong knowledge of security principles and detection and response capabilities

• Experience with cloud (AWS and GCP) security fundamentals, networking, and Linux fundamentals
• Familiarity with Windows, Linux, and MacOS TTPs and MITRE frameworks
• Knowledge of SQL and log query languages 
• Knowledge of a programing language for automation and scripting
• Strong problem solving, investigatory, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Effective organizational skills and ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Empathy, patience, a desire to learn, and help your teammates grow

• Ability to work independently or collaboratively and lead projects and initiatives

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market co