Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection and Response

Davita Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 325,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Davita Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer in San Francisco to enhance their security posture against insider threats and safeguard sensitive assets. The role involves innovation in detection systems, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the opportunity to work in a hybrid model. Candidates should have experience in security operations and familiarity with various operating systems and cloud infrastructures.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Qualifications

• Experience in Security or a Security-adjacent field.
• Broad familiarity with macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics.
• Proficiency with scripting languages like Python or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Innovate on Detection and Response infrastructure.
• Develop and tune detection rules for sustainability.
• Drive projects focusing on insider threats.
• Collaborate with HR, Legal, and other stakeholders.

Skills

Security knowledge

Cloud infrastructure

Operating systems familiarity

Scripting

Job description

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI's technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

About the Role

As a Security Engineer you will join our OpenAI engineers and researchers in building, operating and securing transformational AI technologies. This role will focus on all aspects of Detection & Response but with a strong emphasis on detecting insider threats and influencing controls to safeguard OpenAI's most sensitive assets. In this role, you will:

In this role, you will:

• Innovate on Detection and Response infrastructure to engineer and automate end-to-end detection and investigation workflows.

• Develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations.

• Drive projects across OpenAI's technology stack with a focus on insider threats, ranging from access abuse and intellectual property theft to novel risks emerging within AI infrastructure.

• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including HR, Legal, and peer investigative teams, providing technical expertise and evidence to support investigations.

• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI's Security posture.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Experience in Security or a Security-adjacent field. We are open to junior, mid-level and senior candidates as we are recruiting multiple Security Engineers to join the team.

• You have broad familiarity with operating systems and platforms such as macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, along with experience in cloud infrastructure.

• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.

• Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).

• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.

• You're motivated by securing transformative technology and can adapt familiar security frameworks to new risks in AI infrastructure

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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Compensation Range: $325K - $405K