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Extend · 2 months ago

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Extend is revolutionizing the post-purchase experience for retailers and their customers by providing merchants with AI-driven solutions that enhance customer satisfaction and drive revenue growth. The Senior Security Operations Analyst will monitor security alerts, conduct investigations, and collaborate with teams to enhance security measures and practices across the organization.

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Responsibilities

Serve as a core member of Security Operations, monitoring and triaging alerts from platforms such as SentinelOne and Wiz
Perform end-to-end investigations to identify, contain, and remediate threats and incidents, driving timely, appropriate response
Proactively identify and assess vulnerabilities in infrastructure and code, working with development and other cross functional teams to address issues
Contribute to the end-to-end detection lifecycle: model attacker behaviors (MITRE ATT&CK), write and test detections as code across security programs and tooling (SentinelOne, Wiz, Okta, AWS CloudTrail), and continuously enrich to reduce false positives and improve MTTD
Support data quality and telemetry onboarding, maintain response playbooks, and provide threat validation assistance across the business
Assist teams with the application of secure configuration baselines and best practices in accordance with CIS Benchmarks, NIST, vendor hardening guides, and applicable compliance standards across all company computing assets
Correlate endpoint and infrastructure telemetry to identify emerging threats
Curate and operationalize intelligence (IOCs, TTPs) into detections and response playbooks, and maintain vetted intelligence feeds
Assist GRC initiatives by mapping controls to internal policies and frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, NIST CSF, NYC DFS 500), identifying gaps, supporting audits and evidence collection, tracking remediation, and maintaining policies and control documentation
Work with engineering and business teams to champion security best practices, communicate risks to accountable owners, and assist with mitigation planning and execution

Qualification

Security Operations experienceAWS CloudFormationAWS serverless technologiesSIEM managementVulnerability Management toolingDetection Engineering strategiesAI technologies proficiencyAWS IAM best practicesObservability services experienceHigh energy environmentCommunication skills

Required

3+ years experience in a Security Analyst / Security Operations role
3+ years experience with AWS CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code systems (like Terraform)
3+ years experience or certification in AWS serverless technologies (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB)
Certifications (one or more preferred): CISSP, CCSP, GIAC (GCIH/GCIA/GMON/GCED/GCFA/GREM), cloud security (AWS or cloud agnostic security specialty) or equivalent experience
Proficiency with hands on management and use of SIEM, CNAPP, EDR, Vulnerability Management tooling, and Detection Engineering strategies
Proficiency with AI technologies and the corresponding threat landscape and strategies for mitigation. Understands agentic workflows such as AWS Bedrock, MCP based workflows (or similar technologies)
Working Knowledge of best practices around security roles and responsibilities for AWS IAM
Experience working with observability services and tooling (including Coralogix, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry)
Ability to perform in a high energy environment with dynamic job responsibilities and priorities

Preferred

Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit(CDK)
Experience with Mastra AI

Benefits

Full medical and dental & vision benefits
Stock in an early-stage startup growing quickly
Generous, flexible paid time off policy
401(k) with Financial Guidance from Morgan Stanley

Company

Extend

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Extend allows any merchant to offer extend warranties and plans through our easy-to-integrate APIs or pre-built eCommerce applications.

H1B Sponsorship

Extend has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (6)
2024 (6)
2023 (7)
2022 (20)
2021 (5)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$320.4M
Key Investors
SoftBank Vision FundMeritech Capital PartnersGreatPoint Ventures
2021-05-18Series C· $260M
2020-10-15Series B· $40M
2019-11-06Series A· $16.4M

Leadership Team

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Woodrow H. Levin
Founder and CEO
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Joe Moss
Founder and Chief Product Officer
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