Security Analyst

ROLE OVERVIEW

As a Security Analyst at Benchling you’ll be joining a team responsible for maintaining a best-in-class security program. Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation to keep up with the company. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinating investigations across the organization while developing your experience and knowledge in multiple security domains (log analysis, product security, privacy).
• Driving multi-functional incident response and assisting partner teams during privacy and product security investigations 
• Building new, efficient processes for handling investigations
• As a member of the security team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our own tooling, best practices, automation processes, and hiring.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of Incident Response (Security Operations or Incident Response) 
• Experience as an incident responder participating in multi-team incidents
• Practical experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Strong communicator with both words and data - you have experience communicating to a wide variety of stakeholders under varying conditions
• Technical innovation skills (you enjoy finding technical solutions, learning new technology, evangelizing security and privacy)
• Ability to move forward major projects in ambiguous situations through influence and not authority. 
• Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
• Some experience with cloud environments and automation
• Experience in at least one scripting language, preferably Python

HOW WE WORK

Flexible Hybrid Work: We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week.

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay.  The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $114,750 - $120,000. 

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• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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