Security Engineer
About Prove
As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Security Engineer
Department: InfoSec
Reports To: VP, Information Technology
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: US Remote
At Prove, Security Engineers handle the digital security for our company and our products. Our Security Engineers are the first line of defense against malicious actors. Their duties include operating and maintaining our cyber security system and our IT security infrastructure, building digital security protocols, and proactively scanning our company’s digital assets for weaknesses and creating robust countermeasures to prevent future incidents.
This role will specifically focus on Incident Response and Detection & Automation. This role will play a key role in detecting, responding to, and automating the defense against security threats across our infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
As a member of the Information Security team, a Security Engineer will:
- Act as a technical lead within a rapidly growing cyber security group and develop team objectives to resolve outstanding risk and identify new areas of exposure.
- Lead incident response efforts: triage, investigate, contain, and remediate security events in real time
- Develop and tune detection rules across SIEM, XDR, DLP, and other security platforms
- Automate manual security operations using SOAR, scripting, and API integrations to enhance efficiency and consistency
- Build and maintain playbooks for a variety of incident types (e.g., phishing, malware, insider threats, cloud misconfigurations, etc)
- Continuously improve detection logic using threat intelligence and post-incident analysis
- Collaborate with platform and engineering teams to ensure logging, alerting, and monitoring coverage is comprehensive
- Perform threat hunting activities and proactively identify anomalous activity across systems and networks
- Contribute to post-incident review, root cause analysis, and security metrics/reporting
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of related experience in Security Operations, Detection Engineering, and Incident Response. This is a mid-career-level opportunity where you will be a mentor and an individual contributor.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, information security, computer science, or a related field and/or equivalent work/military experience.
- Hands on experience with SIEM, EDR, DLP, and/or SOAR tools
- Strong understanding of attack vectors, tactics, techniques, and procedures using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK
- Knowledge of Incidence Response policy, process, and execution.
- Knowledge of common security controls and practices in cloud platforms
- Passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies
- Understanding of PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2 and NIST requirements and policies.
- Familiarity with container security, cloud security posture management, and/or identity-related incidents
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $118,000 - $125,000 plus variable commission / company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- Modern Health for financial, mental, and physical wellness
- 401(k) Retirement Plan & Match (US Offices) and Local Country Pension (International Offices)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family ❤️
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP & Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for certain office locations
- Daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office (US Offices)
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics
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