Senior Security Engineer - Blue Team

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING AN INNOVATIVE LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY?

The company is a growth-stage technology company valued at over $1 billion (a true Tech Unicorn)!

We are a collection of industry veterans and user-centered engineers using innovative technology to fearlessly reinvent the future of freight by helping shippers, brokers, warehouses and carriers to move more with less.

With headquarters in Chicago and a globally distributed remote team, the company continues to attract top talent committed to driving meaningful change. We seek professionals who embody our core values: curiosity, clarity, results, commitment, and teamwork.

In this role, you will lead our response to security incidents and help strengthen our defensive security program. We are seeking an experienced, goal-driven Senior Security Engineer who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced global company. As the second engineer on our Blue Team, you will partner with our current Blue Team engineer and with engineering squads across product and platform engineering to detect threats early, respond fast, and keep our applications and infrastructure safe and compliant.

DEPARTMENT: Engineering

LOCATION: Remote anywhere in Brazil

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

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Lead security incidents end-to-end: triage, containment, eradication, recovery, stakeholder communication and post-incident review.

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Own and evolve our incident response process: playbooks, severity model, on-call practices and tabletop exercises with engineering and IT.

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Build and tune detections in Datadog Cloud SIEM across AWS, Kubernetes and Google Workspace to reduce time to detect and alert noise.

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Investigate suspicious activity across cloud, identity and workload logs, collecting and preserving evidence for follow-up.

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Improve our cloud security posture, including IAM, and turn findings into prioritized, tracked work for engineering squads.

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Automate detection and response tasks with Python and Terraform.

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Report on incidents and security posture to engineering leadership, and mentor engineers across squads.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

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5+ years of experience in Blue team / Defensive security / Security operations.

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Hands-on experience leading security incident response, from detection through post-incident review and follow-up of actions.

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Experience with forensics and evidence handling in cloud environments: log analysis, evidence collection and preservation.

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Experience building and tuning SIEM detections and alerts, such as in Datadog Cloud SIEM, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, CIS or NIST.

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Experience securing AWS and Kubernetes, including AWS IAM and SSO permission reviews and remediation.

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Automating security tasks with Python and/or Bash, and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.

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Experience defining security processes, leading cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers, with fluent English for daily work with native speakers.

WORKING AT the company

• Competitive base salaries - we believe in rewarding top talent
• Extremely competitive Equity package - become a shareholder in our company!
• Loadie Time Off - PTO and sick days without a limit

At the company, we believe our biggest asset is our people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. The company treats all candidates and employees with respect and does not discriminate in our recruiting, hiring, and promoting processes, including on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, veteran status, or disability.

It is the policy of the company that all offers of employment made shall be contingent upon successful completion of electronic background check(s). These checks will be job-related, consistent with business necessity and conducted by our vendor, pursuant to all applicable laws, rules, policies and procedures of our candidates' specific locale.