Senior Security Engineer @ Klaviyo

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Klaviyo is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to add to our growing Security Intelligence Operations Team. This is a hands-on role that involves responding to cyber threats and incidents, performing digital forensics and investigations, and automating threat response playbooks. As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to work on complex large-scale security challenges and collaborate with engineers across the enterprise to improve security posture of Klaviyo’s Corporate and Cloud environments.

What you’ll be doing:

Respond to alerts, cyber threats, and incidents
Drive end-to-end incident response investigations
Perform host and network based log analysis in a cloud first environment
Serve as the incident commander during incidents
Develop and codify threat response processes and playbooks
Perform digital forensic investigations to include collection and analysis of evidence
Build security tools and to automate threat response tasks
Develop detailed post incident and investigation reports
Solution complex challenges and work on projects centered around security operations
Collaborate with detection engineers to identify threat detection use cases
Work with engineering stakeholders to improve security posture post investigations
Coach and mentor junior team members within the detection & response team

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

6+ years of hands-on security operations experience in the modern cloud environments
Experience in triaging and responding to cyber threats, alerts, and incidents
Experience in log analysis, incident response and/or digital forensics
Experience with SIEM and centralized data lake logging (e.g., Splunk, Snowflake)
Experience with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Experience securing cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
Proficient in programming languages to automate/build features (e.g., Python, Go)
Understand techniques, tools and procedures used by threat actors
Strong fundamentals of linux and macOS
Automation-first approach for all work performed
Strong oral and written communication skills
Team player with a strong self-managing work ethic

The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law. This role is eligible for benefits, including: medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.

Base Pay Range For US Locations:

$156,800—$235,200 USD

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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