Senior Security Operations Engineer New York, New York, United States

Brex Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Up to four weeks remote work annually

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer to enhance security measures across cloud environments. The role focuses on incident response, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and improving security capabilities. With a requirement for a degree in Computer Science or Engineering, candidates should have significant experience in security contexts, cloud systems, and ideally familiarity with DevOps workflows. This is a hybrid position based in New York, offering flexibility and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security incident response.
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Prevent, detect, and respond to security threats.
• Perform security incident response and documentation.
• Collaborate with teams to drive security issue remediation.

Skills

Incident response

Security alert triage

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

SIEM

AWS

Git

Terraform

Job description

### Senior Security Operations Engineer#### New York, New York, United StatesSenior Security Operations Engineer**Why join us**Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.**Engineering at Brex**Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders.**What you’ll do**As a Security Operations Engineer at Brex, you will focus on preventing, detecting and responding to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments. You will use existing systems and develop tools to improve our security capabilities. Our team is responsible for functions across corporate security, detection & response and infrastructure security domains; and we perform systems engineering and automation to support those functions.Security Operations is part of our wider Trust & IT organization which means you will have the opportunity to work closely with Application Security, Corporate Engineering, GRC and IT and to improve security configurations, drive positive employee behaviors and generally work to prevent events from becoming incidents. You will also help build and maintain our team’s open source project and have the opportunity to contribute to the . You’ll be part of a team that actively contributes to the wider security community and has a commitment to mentorship and engineering excellence.We’re looking for individuals with a strong background and interest in detecting, responding to, and resolving security incidents and security challenges. You should be comfortable dealing with lots of moving pieces, changing priorities, and new technologies, while having a keen eye for detail. Most importantly, you should be enthusiastic about working with a variety of backgrounds, roles, and people across Brex. Building a world-class financial service requires world-class security.**Where you’ll work**This role will be based in our New York office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!**Responsibilities*** Work on a highly cross-functional team to prevent, detect and respond to security threats across Brex's corporate and cloud environments* Perform security incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation, participate in periodic threat hunting and security exercises* Leading, scoping and building features, participate in designing, and maintaining tools and systems which support the team’s domains – corporate security, detection & response and infrastructure security* Collaborating and partnering with engineering and operations teams to drive remediation of security issues, while balancing prioritization of those security issues within SLA and teams’ respective backlogs* Caring about secure system design, valuing building things correctly, an understanding of a MVP approach and an empathetic mindset when working with others**Requirements*** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR equivalent training / fellowship OR 5+ years work experienceExperience working in a corporate security, detection & response or infrastructure security role with responsibilities for security alert triage and security incident response* Familiarity with CI/CD systems and DevOps workflows (e.g. Buildkite, Flux, Git, Terraform) in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)* Experience with deploying and maintaining some of the security services and tools owned by the team (e.g. - SIEM, data pipelines, SOAR, domain monitoring, endpoint tooling, email protection tooling, cloud security tools)* While not primarily a development role, the team develops and maintains tools written in Go and Python, so experience with coding is required* You thrive in a collaborative environment filled with a diverse group of people with different expertise and backgrounds. We currently have around 30 nationalities represented with more than ½ the company working in a country different from the one they grew up in.**Bonus points*** Proficiency with Go and other programming languages* Experience with securing distributed systems in AWS, cloud and Kubernetes environments* Contributions to the wider technical community (open source, public research, mentorship, community organizing, blogging, presentations, etc)**Compensation**The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.*Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.*