Senior Cyber Security Engineer

About the job

BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with liquidity, custody, and security solutions. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients.  Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 600 coins and tokens. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms.  BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

We are looking for a versatile Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join the team and write, tune and respond to alerts covering the entire environment from endpoints to cloud infrastructure. This exciting opportunity empowers you to ensure the right alerts come in and you don’t burn out on false positives. Your work would take place during regular business hours. Weekend coverage will be necessary. From time to time evenings as well. The expectation is that we build for 24x7 coverage but you will be asked to step in to assist the team.

Responsibilities:

• Review and triage security alerts from a wide variety of sources
• Carefully tune rules to reduce false positives
• Write new rules to ensure appropriate MITRE ATT&CK framework coverage
• Escalate potential incidents
• Assist in any incident response activities
• Work with Engineering and IT on visibility coverage and detection 

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for teammates who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets. 

Required:

• 5+ years responding to alerts
• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Comfortable writing and tuning detection rules
• Experience triaging alerts and establishing if an event rises to an incident
• Varied exposure to a variety of application, SaaS, cloud and end-point logs
• Strong communication skills towards technical and non-technical people
• Preference for people who have experienced a real-life security incident that they detected                      

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of open communication, collaboration, accountability, craftsmanship, and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

• Competitive salary
• IT equipment support for work
• Meal & Commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprises of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
• Snacks: on-the-house in the Bangalore office
• Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed finance.