Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection Brazil, Sao Paulo

Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection

About Nubank

Nubank was founded in 2013 to free people from a bureaucratic, slow, and inefficient financial system. Since then, through innovative technology and outstanding customer service, the company has been redefining people's relationships with money across Latin America. With operations in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, Nubank is today one of the largest digital banking platforms and technology-leading companies in the world.

Today, Nubank is a global company, with offices in São Paulo (Brazil), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogotá (Colombia), Durham (United States), and Berlin (Germany). It was founded in 2013 in São Paulo, by David Vélez, and co-founded by Cristina Junqueira and Edward Wible. For more information, visit www.nubank.com.br.

About the team

The Nubank Threat Detection team proactively hunts for security threats and builds detections to protect Customers and Nubankers. We support our CSIRT on investigating threats, with strong engineering to decrease the time to act on threats through automation and by receiving valuable information from our internal Threat Intelligence team, acting as a true Security Operations Center.

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Act as the subject-matter expert, creating threat detection rules and actionable insights to identify, prevent, detect and respond to adversary activities. Work cross-functionally with security engineering, intelligence, infrastructure and data teams to build solutions for analyzing security events data at scale.

You'll partner with Defensive Security Operations and IT teams to build and deploy solutions that analyze security event data at scale. This is a critical role for an expert who can work across multiple disciplines to harden our defenses and ensure we are always one step ahead.

We are looking for a person who

Must Have :

• Good communication skills and be a real team player;
• Proficiency with security platforms including WAFs (Web Application Firewalls), Firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto, FortiNet), IDS / IPS (Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems);
• Proficient in SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and XDR (Extended Endpoint Detection and Response) systems;
• Proven experience in information security operations;
• Expertise in managing, analyzing and deriving insights from logs and other security-related data;
• Skills in utilizing and integrating threat intelligence feeds and applying them to improve threat detection;
• Proficiency in SQL for querying and managing security-related databases;
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and experience with securing cloud environments across different providers (e.g. AWS).

Nice to Have :

Other benefits and opportunities

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nubank, we want to ensure that we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. We hire based on equality, considering gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as key elements for our company, ensuring that none of them pose a barrier to recruiting talented individuals.

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