Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Point is a company focused on making homeownership more valuable and accessible by helping homeowners access their wealth and achieve financial flexibility. The Senior Security Operations Analyst (Detection & Response) will help build and operate Point’s detection and response function by investigating and containing threats, engineering detections, automating response, managing vulnerabilities, and improving security operations across its cloud, identity, and SaaS environments.
Responsibilities
- Rotate on-call and lead response: share the 24/7 on-call and incident-response rotation with the security lead — triaging, investigating, and driving containment of security alerts and incidents
- Own response documentation: build and maintain incident-response runbooks, escalation paths, and post-incident reviews so response is consistent and repeatable
- Engineer detections: build, tune, and maintain SIEM detections, correlation rules, dashboards, and reporting in Coralogix across cloud and identity log sources
- Close coverage gaps: reduce false positives and onboard new log sources to eliminate detection blind spots
- Own vulnerability management: run day-to-day vulnerability management — prioritize findings, coordinate remediation with system owners, and report on risk reduction across cloud and endpoints
- Automate response: develop detection-as-code and lightweight automation/SOAR so common alerts self-triage and response is faster and repeatable
- Add operational redundancy: serve as a redundant administrative and response path so containment is never bottlenecked on a single person
- Report and evidence: produce recurring security metrics and reporting for leadership, and supply control evidence for audits
- Apply AI to the workflow: use AI/LLM tooling to accelerate investigation, correlation, and detection engineering
- Improve the program: contribute to continuous improvement of the security-operations program, tooling, and threat monitoring
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, SOC, or detection engineering (mid-to-senior individual contributor)
- Hands-on experience running or actively participating in an on-call / incident-response rotation, independently
- Strong SIEM skills — authoring and tuning detections, correlation rules, and dashboards (Coralogix, Splunk, Elastic, Microsoft Sentinel, or similar)
- Practical cloud security experience in AWS and Google Workspace, including identity and log sources
- Demonstrated ability to investigate and contain incidents end to end — e.g., phishing/AiTM, account takeover, business email compromise, and cloud/identity threats
- Working knowledge of vulnerability management and coordinating remediation with engineering teams
- Scripting and automation ability (Python or similar) for detection-as-code and SOAR-style workflows
- Clear written and verbal communication — able to produce runbooks, metrics, and audit-ready documentation
- Comfortable operating with autonomy on a small team and owning problems end to end
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Hands-on experience using AI/LLMs for security analysis, investigation, and alert engineering (detection authoring, correlation, tuning, and automation)
- Experience in a regulated financial-services or fintech environment (GLBA, NYDFS Part 500, SOC 2)
- Relevant certifications (e.g., GCIA, GCIH, GCED, GIAC, CySA+, Security+, or AWS Security Specialty)
- Experience standing up detection & response practices from an early or greenfield state
- Experience in a regulated financial-services or fintech environment (GLBA, NYDFS Part 500, SOC 2)
- Relevant certifications (e.g., GCIA, GCIH, GCED, GIAC, CySA+, Security+, or AWS Security Specialty)
- Experience standing up detection & response practices from an early or greenfield state
Benefits
- Work from anywhere in the U.S., while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.
- We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).
- Unlimited paid time off and 10 company holidays.
- We support fully remote work and also have an amazing in-person environment in our downtown Palo Alto, CA HQ.
- Point will supplement state Paid Family Leave (PFL) so employees receive 100% of their regular base pay, plus two additional weeks of fully paid leave after state PFL ends.
- In states without PFL, Point offers up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Employees also receive 4 weeks of fully paid transition time, during which you may work 2–3 days per week while receiving full base pay.
- Meaningful equity.
- 401K retirement plans for employees.
- Guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, and wellness perks.
- A one-time home office reimbursement.
- Company provided equipment including a MacBook and monitor.
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