Senior Manager, Detection & Response

Spotnana is searching for a Senior Manager to join our growing global security and trust team as the leader of the Detection and Response team.

This passionate individual is someone who lives in the details of security engineering and can thrive in a fast- paced environment where both individual drive and team collaboration are the keys to success. This is a technical, hands-on role that is focused on our SaaS platform and overall enterprise. You’ll be working to identify problems, establish a vision for how to address those problems, and uniting the relevant owners within the business on achieving that vision!

• Own the strategy and implementation of a global incident response team and contain security incidents when they happen
• Apply deep expertise in threat intelligence and hunting, incident detection at scale, to incident containment and response practices efficient at Spotnana
• Enrich detection capabilities for Spotnana  using attack models (such as MITRE’s ATT&CK framework) and studies related to emerging threats in the industry
• Create and deploy the instrumentation and data capture capabilities ensuring visibility into the large-scale, distributed, multi-region cloud services powering Spotnana platform
• Build and own detection-as-code and pipelines for our incident response and monitoring platform
• Write unit tests for security detections
• Write automations to support our threat and vulnerability management program across the enterprise
• Build integrations between various security products
• Design and evaluate security solutions that fit well into an API driven, multi-region SaaS platform
• Creating prototypes and/or proof of concepts to demonstrate that a proposed solution would work
• Partnering with leaders and engineers to influence and define execution plans
• Mentor and manager of direct reports and other junior engineers

• Significant technical depth in security incident detection and response:
• Deep understanding of information security intelligence and threat-hunting, preferably with hands-on experience deploying an activity-based intelligence (ABI) model
• Practical application of detection and response methodologies in a variety of environment types, including on premises, private cloud, and public cloud providers
• Hands-on experience with effective incident response and containment practices
• Fluency in building and deploying software using modern engineering practices
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably multiple
• Golang and Python a strong plus
• Familiarity with the application of Machine Learning in a security context, including its capabilities and limitations
• A broad base of technical knowledge spanning many of the fields of information technology: Examples: software engineering, system administration, network engineering, governance and compliance
• Experience delivering results in an enterprise environment, ideally from a position of little or no direct authority, ideally in efforts that span teams or organizations

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive, and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position’s compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications. 

The annual cash compensation for this role is:

 Benefits offered include:

• Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical (United Healthcare or Kaiser), dental (Guardian), vision (Guardian), life (Mutual of Omaha), and disability (Mutual of Omaha) effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
• Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
• 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
• Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
• Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
• Additional benefits including access to International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more