Principal Security Engineer, Detection & Response at Circle answer
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Job Description
<p>Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at <a target="_blank" href="http://circle.com/"><span style="color:#005cb9"><u>circle.com</u></span></a>.</p><p></p><p><b>What you’ll be part of:</b></p><p></p><p>Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by <a target="_blank" href="http://careers.circle.com/us/en/#working-at-circle"><span style="color:#005cb9"><u>our company values</u></span></a>: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.</p><p></p><p><b><b>What you'll be responsible for:</b></b></p><p><span>The Circle Security Team works to protect Circle; our customers, clients, and partners; and the financial markets upon which we rely.</span></p><p></p><p><span>As a member of this team, you'll lead projects and be responsible for key deliverables of the security program while collaborating across Circle teams. You will continue to learn and stay current in a fun and rapidly changing environment.</span></p><p></p><p><span>This role sits at the intersection of three of Circle's highest-stakes threat surfaces: our blockchain and custody environments (USDC issuance, Arc, on-chain monitoring), our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS + EKS), and the AI tooling Circle adopts internally and ships in product. You'll build detection coverage and response capability across all three; not as a generalist, but as a Principal who can go deep on each.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Also note that this position will require you to perform on-call duties mainly during working hours to support security operations, and you will assist the team with the occasional night time and weekend incident. We would also like someone with a strong response background and some exposure to insider risk.</span></p><p></p><p><b><b>What you'll work on:</b></b></p><ul><li><p><span>Proactively identify and respond to emerging security threats across cloud, endpoint, blockchain, and AI surfaces.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Build detection and response capability for blockchain and crypto-native threats: on-chain anomalies, custody-vault interactions, wallet abuse, smart cont