Lead Security Engineer
Chargebee · Posted Oct 15
Subscription management, recurring billing, and revenue growth infrastructure services
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About the role
Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform used by SaaS and subscription-first businesses to process billions of dollars in revenue, with a globally distributed 500+ person team. This role operates at the intersection of security operations and cloud transformation on AWS and Azure, running a 24x7 security operations center across the IT, Identity, Cloud Infrastructure and Product layers. The Lead Security Engineer will build and lead a cyber security incident response team, optimize incident response and cyber resilience, engineer new detection sources, and partner with product engineering, infrastructure and GRC organizations.
What you will do
- Continuously scout for sources of detection and integrate new sources with SOC.
- Critically examine relevance of logs & its value to incident response.
- Enrichment of existing alerts & reduction of false positive alerts.
- Regular maintenance of SOC infrastructure & its cost management.
- Play a pivotal role in making opinionated tools decisions.
- Manage and operate our SIEM platform, ensuring efficient log collection,correlation, and aggregation.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify and respond to potential security incidents early.
- Analyze security logs and generate reports to identify trends and improve security posture.
- Own & maintain incident ticketing tool to logging all security incidents
- Governance, tracking & measuring of SOC ops through KPIs
- Collaborate with product engineering, program management, Legal, Privacy and GRC teams to know key stakeholders required during incident response.
- Build high performing security ops team with a high sense of accountability & ability to take decisions in ambiguous situations.
- Configure and manage perimeter security solutions like WAFs.
- Keep a handle on approved budget , run rate etc and efficiently manage unit economics of operations.
- Have an active engagement with managed services partners on quality of services , SLA adherence & overall delivery of services.
- Lead automation initiatives within SOC to simplify reporting, dashboarding & reduce Ops fatigue.
- Champion adoption of Agile practices with the Security team.
- Enhance product IQ within all members of the SOC team.
- Mentor & coach SOC analysts and help them in career progression.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering & security ops in global setting - preferably in the financial or payments domain.
- Excellent scripting & querying skills - specially on Splunk & ELK.
- Good knowledge of Python, Powershell & AWS security services.
- Experience of building perimeter protection using AWS WAF , Cloudflare , Akamai etc.
- Experience in building enterprise logging management systems using either Splunk, ELK etc.
- Extensive experience of adopting IAC (infrastructure as a code) using either AWS cloud formation templates, Terraform etc. and building security monitoring gates to identify deviations
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to condense complicated scenarios into simple, risk-based assessments
- Effective team player with experience coaching and supporting junior team members
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure security and risk analysis techniques, or related fields such as software engineering and architecture
- Domain experience in payment tech / fintech / banking is a plus.
- Any Bachelor’s degree/ Post Graduates
Preferred qualifications
- Cloud specific accreditations like AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps engineer, Azure Solutions architect etc.
- Security specific certifications like GIAC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM etc.
- Experience of building testing automation using modern testing tools like Github Advanced Security , Snyk etc.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Chargebee
Chargebee is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that automates revenue operations, invoicing, payments, and compliance for high-growth businesses. Its platform helps enterprises manage complex subscription lifecycles, usage-based pricing, and global tax configurations. Trusted by thousands of global innovators, Chargebee streamlines financial workflows from early-stage operations to multi-year enterprise contracts.
- Industry
- SaaS
- Company size
- 1000-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Series H
Funding
Series H · $475M raised
- 2024-03-08Series H$5M
- 2022-02-01Series H$250M
- 2021-04-01Series G$125M
- 2020-10-01Series F$55M
- 2019-08-01Series D$14M
- 2018-03-01Series C$18M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
CPO & Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Recent coverage
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