About Kandji
Kandji is the Apple device management and security platform that empowers secure and productive global work. With Kandji, Apple devices transform themselves into enterprise-ready endpoints, with all the right apps, settings, and security systems in place. Through advanced automation and thoughtful experiences, we’re bringing much-needed harmony to the way IT, InfoSec, and Apple device users work today and tomorrow.
Some of the smartest money in tech has partnered with Kandji to realize our vision, including Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, First Round Capital, and Okta Ventures. In July 2024, Kandji raised $100 million in capital from General Catalyst, bringing Kandji’s valuation to $850 Million.
Since Kandji’s Series C in 2021, the company has seen a 600%+ increase in annual recurring revenue, and its customer base has grown nearly 4X across 40+ industries. Notable customers include Allbirds, Canva, and Notion, and the company has partnerships with such industry giants as ServiceNow, AWS, and Okta.
Kandji was also named to Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startup List 2023 and recognized as a top venture-backed startup with the potential to reach unicorn status.
The Opportunity
Kandji is looking for a Detection & Response Engineer to add to our growing Security Team. This is a hands-on technical role that involves: solving complex security problems, threat detection, security orchestration & automation, incident response, developing new tools, and security operations. As a Detection & Response Engineer, you will have the opportunity to provide D&R thought leadership, take ownership of end-to-end detection development lifecycle, and execute on core D&R engineering efforts.
How you will make a difference day to day:
- Develop, test, and deploy high fidelity detections
- Establish telemetry data across Kandji product and corporate environments
- Detect and respond to cyber threats and incidents
- Deploy and optimize detection and response technologies (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR)
- Codify detection and response processes and playbooks
- Conduct ad-hoc threat hunts in support of SecOps, detection, automations or tools
- Build tools, integrations and automations for SecOps and threat detection platforms
- Collaborate across functional teams, such as Product, Engineering, and IT, to understand and protect all aspects of Kandji cyber footprint
- Act as Kandji’s customer zero and partner with internal Product Management Team to provide important insights as to how the Kandji product could be improved for the needs of our internal team and the needs of our customers
Minimum qualifications:
- 4+ years of hands-on security operations experience in the modern cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with SIEM tooling and centralized logging (e.g. Panther, Rapid7, ELK, Splunk)
- Writing and deploying threat-intelligence driven detections (e.g. endpoint, network, cloud, or container)
- Securing cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Leveraging scripting languages for automation and integration (Python preferred, but other languages are welcome)
- Building and configuring Detection-As-Code frameworks
- Subject matter expert for incident response lifecycle and implementation
- Experience with using and configuring Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tooling
- Strong fundamentals of Linux and Mac operating systems
Benefits & Perks
• Competitive salary
• 100% individual and dependent medical + dental + vision coverage
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• 20 days PTO
• 14 paid holidays per year
• 10 health and wellness days per year
• Kandji Wellness Week off July 1 - July 5, 2024
• Equity for full-time employees
• Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Paid Family and Medical Leave
• Modern Health - Mental Health Benefits - Individual and Dependents
• Fertility Benefits
• Working Advantage Employee Discounts
• Monthly utilities stipend
• Free onsite fitness center
• Free parking
• Lunch 5 days/week
• Exciting opportunities for career growth
• An outstanding, inclusive culture
We are excited to be serving a significant need for a fast-growing market, and are proud of the high-performing team we have brought together so far. If you’re someone who wants to engage in new, exciting projects that will challenge your skills in the best way possible, we would love to connect with you.
At Kandji we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.
Kandji is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.
