Senior Information Security Specialist

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Who We Are

Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber attack. Our combination of market-defining technology, processes, and expertise are preventing breaches every day. We are completely changing the way security is delivered and setting the new standard for security. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk!


What We Believe In

- Do what’s right for the customer

- Be kind and authentic

- Deliver great quality

- Be relentless


Challenges You Will Solve

As a leader on our Educational and Research Programs team, your mission is to partner closely with operational teams at Red Canary and identify opportunities to empower the broader information security (InfoSec) community by sharing our subject matter and operational expertise via a variety of mediums. You partner individually with a variety of security-related teams at Red Canary to help disseminate data, information, and insights that range from timely and tactical to visionary or strategic.


You’ll write, review, and edit content in collaboration with other contributors, editors, including our content and social media teams. This includes partnering within and across teams to ensure technical accuracy, quality, readability, and consistency in everything that we publish. 


As a leader and a senior member of our team, you will also:

- Mentor others on the Community team and on the Red Canary team at-large. 

- Participate in cross-functional projects and programs, such as our annual Threat Detection Report 

- Help to define and execute new programs


In doing the above, you positively impact our ability to grow while continuing to improve quality.

What You'll Do

  • Author or create resources in collaboration with internal teams and external contributors
  • Define and share ownership of our editorial standards, including our style guide
  • Lead projects focused on creation of educational or research resources using a variety of mediums, including written, speaking, or multimedia
  • Specialize and focus across multiple subject matter areas (i.e. intelligence and response and other areas)
  • Help to refine, guide, and provide feedback related to resources during ideation, production, or post-publication 
  • Mentor other team members
  • Report team performance indicators and success metrics on a weekly basis
  • Speak as a subject matter expert and on behalf of Red Canary at conferences to media and other external sources on an as needed basis

What You'll Bring

  • You actively contribute to the information security industry and/or community through writing, speaking, or creating other forms of educational, intelligence, or technical content. 
  • You have a good working understanding of security operations, including threat intelligence, detection engineering, threat research, and incident handling/response.
  • You are eager to expand your knowledge and expertise in this domain by embedding with the various highly operational teams that comprise Red Canary’s security organization.
  • You are an exceptional written communicator and are equally adept at writing about technical topics and abstract concepts in a variety of styles. 
  • You are an avid reader and consumer of InfoSec content ranging from social media and conference talks to books on relevant topics.
  • You enjoy teaching and learning, and getting paid to do both while helping Red Canary customers and the broader InfoSec community is your idea of an ideal job and career.

Targeted base salary range: $93,000 - 140,000 (depending on experience) + bonus eligibility and equity


Why Red Canary?

Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way. 


At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:

https://redcanary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Benefit-Summary-Red-Canary.pdf 


Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • GolangLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • RustLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • jQueryLibraries
    • ReactLibraries
    • ReduxLibraries
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • WordpressCMS
    • HubSpotCRM
    • SalesforceCRM
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • AsanaProject Management
    • BasecampProject Management

Location

Our state-of-the-art HQ is located in the brand new McGregor Square centered in Denver's historic LoDo. From inception we have been hybrid workforce.

An Insider's view of Red Canary

What's something quirky about your company?

On a quarterly basis, we have a companywide gathering that we affectionately call BEASTMODE. It’s a great opportunity for “Canaries” from across the country to come together, level-set on the state of the business, get to know each other better, and build a close knit community trying to make a positive impact on the world.

Dave

Director, Customer Success

What projects are you most excited about?

The Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) reached the milestone of 10,000 spec/unit tests to validate our detection logic, an indicator of how diligently we maintain our detectors. Continued validation that everything is working as anticipated is key to ensuring a successful security program.

Joe

VP, Customer Security Operations

What makes someone successful on your team?

Curiosity. If you are asking questions, building on what you just learned, and relating it to something known, then you are truly curious about what you’re learning and you will become an expert.

Diane

Director of Product Support

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

As we continue to grow and add specialized focus across digital media, video, and an even more robust content program, I want the team to be able to take all the great insights and educational pieces and recommendations and make it easy for people to find them, understand them, and implement them. To be able to use what we’re doing in marketing in

Brianne

Director, Marketing

What does career growth look like on your team?

Customer Solutions Engineers possess a blended skillset that intersects business, security and technical. Team members can grow within their role or continue to develop their talents into positions such as technical account manager, security architect, and evangelist.

Robbie

Director, Customer Solutions Engineering

What are Red Canary Perks + Benefits

Red Canary Benefits Overview

Exceptional healthcare, dental, and vision coverage including fully paid premiums
Unlimited PTO
401k and flex-spending accounts, including an employer-funded HRA
100% employer paid long and short term disability
Monthly stipend for personal fitness and cell phone

Culture
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 8 weeks of parental leave for new parents.
Family medical leave
Fertility benefits
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees receive 80 hours per year of paid sick leave.
Flexible time off
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Annual company all-hands meeting where we bring in all of our remote team members to build camaraderie, align and learn.

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