Backend Engineer, Security
Remote
Full Time
#Engineering
#PowerShell
#Windows OS
#Unix
#Cloud
#DevOps
About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
About the role
Coalition’s Incident Response (CIR) team provided digital forensic and incident response (DFIR) services to clients, including Coalition policyholders.
To provide these services, CIR uses a variety of collection and analysis tools, deployed locally on analyst workstations and as hosted applications in the cloud. This engineer position will work closely with the CIR team to maintain, refine, update, and develop new tools and capabilities. These efforts will make the team more efficient, and allow them to deliver more effective DFIR services to clients in crisis.
- Things you might do in the first 6 months of this role: Develop and improve devops tools that enable CIR to rapidly and consistently deploy infrastructure in AWS and Azure using Terraform, Ansible, and similar capabilities.
- Create forensic automation tooling to collect and analyze relevant artifacts at scale
- Improve log collection and analysis tools to process SaaS telemetry and configuration details for business email compromise investigations.
- Build and maintain web applications to collect structured investigative data.
- Integrate platforms across the investigative lifecycle using APIs, CRM, data pipelines (ETL), Zapier, databases, etc.
Responsibilities
- A thought-partner to Product Management and CIR on process and tooling improvements.
- Executing on technical plans by improving existing tooling, developing new features, integrating with services CIR uses day-to-day.
- Maintaining a reliable overall system for CIR
Skills and Qualifications
- One general purpose programming language and general scripting experience
- Working knowledge of PowerShell and Windows OS fundamentals
- Unix command line knowledge (bash, grep, awk)
- Knowledge of Cloud Provider ecosystems and their services
- DevOps fundamentals including infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation (e.g., terraform, ansible)
- Knowledge of internet technologies and architecture design
- Organizational and Research skills – the work often involves discovering requirements
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with Go and Python
- Familiarity with Velociraptor (by Rapid7) and its underlying query language VQL
- Knowledge of AWS and Azure ecosystems
- Knowledge of Terraform
Perks
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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