Senior Threat Detection and Response Engineer

CarGurus • Boston, MA

23h • $116,000 - $145,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

CarGurus is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to add to our growing Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) Team. This is a hands-on technical role that will build our first line of defense against cybersecurity threats in a complex and evolving landscape. You will be responsible for our detection and response lifecycle, identifying and preventing threats from impacting our employees, customers and other stakeholders. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply your experience to provide technical leadership to the team, build a platform to identify and stop threats, work with data to solve complex security challenges, and ultimately defend CarGurus against critical threats.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software, security, and/or data engineering
• Strong desire to apply the latest technology including AI and ML to defend against threats
• Experience with data pipelines and data engineering, especially centralized logging, SIEM tools, and data lakes
• Desire to measure the success of your work with quantitative tools like Precision and Recall
• Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python, Go or similar
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure and technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, containers, IaC, etc
• Proven experience with good engineering practices like git/GitHub and CI/CD automations
• Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors
• Experience detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents
• Strong passion for continuous learning, especially relating to cybersecurity and technology
• Team player with strong oral and written communication skills
• Effective ability to make decisions independently and provide clear technical guidance to others

Responsibilities

• Build a platform to detect threats to the company using an engineering-first approach that prioritizes reliability, maintainability and scalability
• Leverage AI and automation to streamline detection and response operations in a safe and reliable manner
• Onboard, normalize and optimize security logging data to support detection engineering, applied ML models, and efficient querying during incidents.
• Apply an engineering mindset to develop high-fidelity, rule-based and ML-driven detections as code, utilizing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
• Own the end-to-end response to alerts, threats, and security incidents, including participating in on-call rotations
• Proactively monitor the threat landscape to identify and track emerging threats, ensuring that appropriate detective and preventative controls are deployed
• Partner with development teams to design controls for a cloud first infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, etc)

Benefits

• We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us.
• Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways.
• A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being.
• Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed