Security Engineer (IT) in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

About Juniper Square

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital make up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a better place by making markets work better through technology – all while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you.

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in our physical office in San Francisco or one of our co-working spaces. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across most US states, two Canadian Provinces, and India.

About Your Role

As an Information Security Engineer at Juniper Square, you’ll have an opportunity to use your extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of information security. You will have the chance to improve security tools and processes, identify threats, detect incidents and deliver effective response/remediation. Together, with our growing team, we will work to reduce information security risk across the company.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a hands-on, technical security generalist for this role. Someone with a breadth and depth of experience across multiple areas of security. Key Responsibilities include:

• Build and monitor security tools
• Incident detection and response
• Threat hunting
• Remediation and forensics
• Develop, train and monitor best security practices including application, infrastructure, and endpoint security, vulnerability management, system configuration, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technology related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of IT security experience with at least 2 years beyond an analyst role as a security engineer
• Security certification (CISSP, CISM, or similar)
• Strong understanding of all aspects of security best practices, policies, and procedures
• Expert knowledge and experience with SIEM, MDR, XDR, EDR
• Extensive experience in incident response
• Extensive experience writing custom detections
• Strong knowledge in SAAS security, endpoint protection, and malware analysis
• Strong knowledge and practical application of bash and or python scripting
• Strong knowledge of security and compliance frameworks
• Knowledge and experience with AWS or GCP
• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, service and resolution skills
• Ability to be on-call

At Juniper Square, we believe building a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture makes us a better company. If you think this job sounds like a fit, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the qualifications.

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $225,000 and the Canada base salary range for this role is $140,000 - $210,000. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.

Benefits Include

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Mental wellness coverage
• Fertility and growing family support
• Flex Time Off in addition to company paid holidays
• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
• Retirement saving plans
• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
• Annual professional development stipend

Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.