TL;DR

Senior Detection Engineer (Fintech): Drive security detection and response initiatives focusing on federal and public sector environments. With an accent on maturing security detection, alerting capabilities, and automation. Focus on designing and implementing automated threat detection and response, improving security alerting, and incident triage.

Location: Must work in-person at NYC HQ at least 2 days/week

Salary: $160,400 - $220,550

Company

Ramp is a financial operations platform combining payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with AI-driven intelligence, serving over 50,000 businesses.

What you will do

  • Respond to and assist with security requests and incidents from Ramp team members
  • Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify and triage potential security incidents
  • Create, maintain, and tune runbooks and security alerts for effective incident handling
  • Collaborate with Security Engineers to improve alerting and automated remediation
  • Utilize log ingestion platforms for security analytics and attacker pattern identification
  • Design and implement automation to detect and respond to threats

Requirements

  • 3-4 years of IT experience or equivalent education/training
  • Experience in information security, especially in C/SIRT, CERT, CSIRC, or SOC teams
  • Experience with query-based log management solutions (ELK, Datadog, Panther, etc.)
  • Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, and communication skills
  • Must be comfortable working onsite at NYC HQ at least 2 days per week

Nice to have

  • Experience with government entities or highly regulated environments
  • Security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, Network+
  • Experience with workflow automation tools (Tines, Swimlane, etc.)

Culture & Benefits

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for employees, partial for dependents
  • 401k with employer match
  • Flexible PTO and parental leave
  • Unlimited AI token usage and health & wellness stipend
  • Relocation support to NYC or SF as needed
  • In-office perks including lunch, snacks, drinks, and travel budget