Full-Time

Senior SOC Engineer

DFIR & Hunt

Posted on 9/3/2024

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud computing platform for developers

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$118.4k - $177.6kAnnually

+ Bonus + Equity Compensation

Senior

Remote in USA

This is a remote role.

Category
Cybersecurity
IT & Security
Required Skills
SQL
Linux/Unix
Looker
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Experience performing live incident response activities transparently (sans picerl), in a team environment where accuracy of analysis determines business impact.
  • Hands-on dead-disk and live digital forensics experience, on Linux or Unix systems using open source tools (eg, volatility, sleuthkit) in production environments at scale.
  • Ability to differentiate between normal and unusual resource usage patterns in customer and employee network/system behaviors in order to hunt for subtle anomalous patterns.
  • Data analysis skills, including familiarity with relational databases, structured query languages (sql), logging infrastructures (syslog, elastic), and data visualization tools (looker, grafana, kentik).
  • Familiarity with basic static and dynamic malware analysis for triage, identification, prioritization, and remediation of new malware families and behaviors (e.g: x86 assembly, binary analysis).
  • A high degree of curiosity and aptitude, with a clear passion for security and the desire to keep our employees, customers, and the internet safe.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills to include; technical writing, presenting, coaching, mentoring.
  • Consistently improving security as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through data collection and correlation, being mindful that security should be an efficiency enabler for the business - not a detractor.
  • Bonus: Experience in one or more of the following: Vulnerability Analysis, Scoping, and Mitigation Planning; Threat Intelligence Collection / Analysis / Dissemination; Network Protocol Analysis; Coding, automation, or scripting skills for tool building; Detection Engineering.
Responsibilities
  • Handling live intrusions and incident response cases with on-call rotations, in an internal-oriented and transparent manner, to minimize the impact of bad actors on assets.
  • Collect digital artifacts from cloud systems for analysis to reconstruct what may have transpired on a system leveraging digital forensics methodologies.
  • Analyzing network traffic to identify compromised systems, negate denial of service attacks, and pinpoint resource abuse.
  • Identifying trends in abusive activity, communicating with leadership to keep them apprised, and advocating for appropriate product changes to prevent future occurrences.
  • Acting as a point of escalation for security monitoring and related incidents: providing supporting data for critical issues, downtime events, and Post-Mortem reports.
  • Helping build tools to identify or automate response to harmful activity.
  • Establishing an understanding of DigitalOcean’s entire production environment, from applications to infrastructure, keeping up-to-date with material changes and future directions.
  • Building strong relationships with the other technical teams across our engineering and infrastructure functions to harden account, platform, and service structures to combat intrusions, compromises, and disruptive activities.

DigitalOcean provides cloud computing services that enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently. Its platform offers a range of fully managed services, allowing users to focus on software development rather than infrastructure management. DigitalOcean stands out from competitors by emphasizing simplicity, a strong community, and open-source support, making it accessible for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. The company's goal is to empower developers and businesses to innovate and grow by providing the tools and resources they need to succeed in the cloud.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$168.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2012

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

14%

2 year growth

29%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • DigitalOcean's new Droplet Autoscale Pools enhance workload scaling capabilities.
  • The introduction of Bare Metal GPUs supports demanding AI/ML workloads.
  • Joining the Ceph Foundation strengthens DigitalOcean's open source storage solutions.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Vultr, matching DigitalOcean's $3.5 billion valuation.
  • Operational costs may rise with the NYC2 Data Center expansion.
  • Integration challenges may arise from the partnership with Hugging Face.

What makes DigitalOcean unique

  • DigitalOcean offers a no DevOps required experience for developers.
  • The company focuses on simplicity and open source to attract developers.
  • DigitalOcean's customer service is a key differentiator in the cloud market.

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Benefits

Remote-first

Full health coverage

Wellness coverage

Flexible vacation time

Team-building & social events

401(k) plans

ESPP

Education support

Partner support

Employee giving

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