SOC Security Engineer

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, Web3 features, and more. We leverage the power of digital assets and blockchain to build an inclusive financial ecosystem to advance the freedom of money and improve financial access for people around the world.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SOC security platforms and tooling, with a primary focus on SIEM, SOAR, and security automation.

• Develop Python-based services, scripts, automation workflows, and security integrations with SIEM, EDR, AWS, and internal security platforms.

• Build and maintain AWS-based security services and integrations, including EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.

• Support SIEM operations and detection engineering, including log ingestion, parsing, normalization, correlation, and detection rule development.

• Develop detection use cases and common security threat models, based on attack scenarios and real-world security incidents.

• Participate in SOC on-call rotation and incident response, including alert triage, investigation, containment, and post-incident analysis.

• Work with SOC analysts and security teams to improve security automation, detection coverage, and platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Hands-on Python development experience is required. Experience with Golang or Java is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.

• Experience developing production-quality services, automation, APIs, or internal security tools.

• Practical experience using SIEM platforms for security monitoring, log analysis, and alert investigation.

• Good understanding of SOC operations and Incident Response (IR), including alert triage and security incident investigation.

• Understanding of common security threats and experience developing security detections / threat models / SIEM use cases.

• Familiarity with EDR, security telemetry, REST APIs, Git, Docker, and Linux.

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.