Senior Security Operations Engineer

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Operations Engineer to join our dynamic security team. You’ll work closely with the broader security and IT team and other engineering teams to develop a strong understanding of our ecosystem to enable you to triage escalations from the SOC and act effectively as an Incident Commander when required. This understanding will aid you in your threat hunting and forensic investigations to uncover indicators of compromise and patterns of malicious activity, as well as fine-tune and develop additional detection rules, configurations, custom playbooks, and automations tailored to our environment. We are focused on building a more proactive security program, identifying and remediating threats before they can happen. Your collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential in proactively detecting and responding to security threats and ensuring the overall security of our digital assets. You understand that the best way to ensure security is to craft guardrails that keep users, data, and processes safely contained, while not smothering workflows. We are maturing our Security Operations program; the candidate who will thrive in this role is someone with curiosity and a willingness to go looking for problems and the diligence to solve them. We are a team that loves questions and trying new things and learning. What You’ll Do Security Operations Duties: Provide Level 2 support to a managed SOC and support monitoring security alerts and events from various sources Conduct threat hunting and perform forensic investigations to identify indicators of compromise and patterns of malicious activity. Coordinate and manage incident resolution with cross-functional teams, including acting as Incident Commander during incidents Support Cloud Detection Response platforms to enable various automated notification and containment workflows. Detection Engineering: Fine-tune and develop detection rules, configurations, and automations based on new threats, lessons learned, or environmental changes. Work with the managed SOC to develop custom playbooks. Identify any gaps in logging coverage to ensure we maintain the highest visibility into any threats to our environment Manage Cloudflare security products for web application security, including WAF rules and DDoS protection. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to proactively detect and respond to potential security threats and ensure the overall security of our organization's digital assets. Vulnerability Management: Monitor security advisories, threat intelligence feeds, and vendor updates for critical threats to drive action back into the enterprise/product organization. About You Education Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or requivalent Minimum of 7 years of experience in a SOC analyst, engineer, or security operations role. Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming and relevant scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, Bash Experience with AWS security services and best practices Familiarity wi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)