Hybrid Senior Insider Threat Engineer

at PayPal

• Job title: Senior Insider Threat Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $123,500 - $183,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Scottsdale, United States

About the role

• Sr Insider Threat Engineer at PayPal applying security best practices in a global commerce platform. Enhancing systems security and collaborating with teams for strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Requirements

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience in systems engineering, computer science, information systems, or other technical/behavioral degree related to the critical thinking disciplines of inspection, investigation, enforcement, and compliance
• Knowledge of insider risk indicators, including writing detection rules in SIEM (or other related tools)
• Ability to multi-task, manage, organize volume and variety of topics
• Actively aware of the insider threat landscape, and understand the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations of working with sensitive information and situations
• Effective problem-solving abilities with key stakeholders and partners on control gaps
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with infrastructure, IT, and response teams to design and implement technical controls
• Discreet, thoughtful, and seek to coordinate systemic, cross functional solutions to mitigate risk
• Ability to translate complex problems into readily implemented and preferably automated solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Linking disparate information such that it can be aggregated, visualized, and interpreted for indications of threat (via query builds, table joins, etc.)

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• parental and family leave
• 401(k) savings plan
• paid time off
• employee shares options
• flexible work environment