Security Engineer Intern

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

About the Role:

To enable Guardant Health to fight cancer through data, the Security Team is seeking a highly motivated Summer Intern – Security Engineer to join our team to improve and enhance detection capabilities at Guardant Health. At Guardant, we leverage the most advanced technologies and work with leaders in many fields to create the most impactful and meaningful technologies for cancer management.

At Guardant Health, you will be at the forefront of combining personalized medicine with IT innovations to improve patient care. You will interact with a diverse team in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

This position involves hands-on security operations and engineering work and is well suited for a student looking for a career in information security defense (blue team). You will work with the Security  Engineering & Operations Team to explore and implement open-source tools that help fulfill the mission of the Security Operations team by expanding its capabilities and automation. The overall framework for the internship is learn-perform-analyze-document as applied to several industry-recognized open-source security automation tools.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gather input and requirements from the security team 
• Utilize open-source tools to automate security blue and purple team tasks
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain systems running security tools

Qualifications

• Completed Coursework in Computer Science
• Experience with programming languages (python preferred) 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure ( AWS, GCP, Azure) 
• Experience with Linux and comfortable in the terminal 
• Exposure to open-source security tools such as Metasploit
• Ability to compile basic open-source toolsets
• Knowledge of docker is a plus.
• Self-motivated with the ability to effectively manage time and meet deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Education: 

Students close to or recently completing BS, MS in CS/EE, or a related field with some programming experience.

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy:  Guardant Health requires all employees to be fully vaccinated. We follow the CDC guidelines for the definition of “fully vaccinated”, meaning an employee is consider fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination, and necessary booster vaccines. In addition, fully vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters. Candidates may request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws.  Candidates will not be able to start their employment with Guardant until they show proof of vaccination or have an approved exemption.

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the hourly range for this full-time position is Undergraduate $27/hr., Graduate $32/hr., and Doctorate $40/hr. The range does not include benefits and, if applicable, overtime, bonus, commission, or equity.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, j