Senior Security Engineer

About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise technology and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics we are able to transform a traditionally multiweek process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! Weve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers ushering the industry into the modern age. Our fullstack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst Sequoia Capital Accel Partners Google Ventures SoftBank and the investment vehicles of JayZ Kevin Durant Robert Downey Jr and others. This year we were named on CB Insights Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIns Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!

About the role

As a member of Ethos Trust and Safety team youll be responsible for building various security services and performing technical security risk assessments to support the Ethos main product. Youll help architect and build our internal security standards and frameworks. This role will help build and deploy various security controls in line with foundational security principles like least privilege defense in depth segregation of duties and zerotrust architecture.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design develop and deploy security mechanisms to protect against adversarial attacks data breaches and other security vulnerabilities
• Design and build robust threat detection monitoring investigation workflows response architectures and the components of the security analytics platform
• Monitor and evaluate operational/security alerts
• Conduct Threat Modeling Design Reviews and Security Testing
• Communicate risks to engineering staff through training and technical demonstration of vulnerabilities and secure design patterns
• Partner with the DevOps team to orchestrate/automate security controls in the Ethos infrastructure/platform
• Lead the vulnerability management lifecycle at the infrastructure platform and application levels
• Participate in investigations threat hunting and incident response activities; build playbooks for specific incident response scenarios
• Assist with compliance activities such as SOC2 control implementation and testing vendor risk assessments etc.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 5 years of full time core relevant InfoSec experience
• Intimate familiarity with AWS cloud security experience automating security processes in cloud environments
• Proficiency in threat modeling design reviews and security testing of various types of applications technologies and platforms
• Handson experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools
• Ability to write automation scripts ideally in more than one language
• Experience in vulnerability/threat management activities at the infrastructure platform and application level
• Experience with penetration tests/red team exercises ideally the type that involve manual verification exploitation lateral movement etc.
• Expertise with event management/SIEM solutions data modeling associated with building event detection and alerting capabilities
• Able to come into our San Francisco CA office once a week

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The US national base salary range for this fulltime position is $121000 $196000.Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including jobrelated skills experience and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus equity or benefits.

You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife/careers/

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace.

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