Senior Security Operations Engineer

• At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people
• We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next
• You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other
• Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact
• If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career
• We aren’t looking for a dashboard-watcher; we need a Digital Architect of Chaos-Prevention who treats zero-days like morning coffee and builds automated fortresses before a threat even breaks a sweat
• As our Senior Security Operations Engineer, you’re the lead mechanic of our invisible shield, welding code and hardening global infrastructure until it’s more secure
• If you’re a cloud-savvy defender who thrives when the stakes are high and hates manual toil, your new playground is ready
• Chaos Wrangler: Orchestrate SIEM/SOAR tools like a digital Mozart. Help the analysts out by automating the boring tasks
• ThreatBuster: Proactively look for threats that haven’t even decided to move in yet. You’re not just reacting; you’re predicting!
• Trap Setter: You don’t wait for an antivirus to beep. You build custom logic, YARA rules, and Sigma signatures that catch attackers before they realize they’ve been spotted
• Master the Multi-Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure. You’re the gatekeeper of our cloud kingdom, ensuring our posture is tighter than a drum across every environment
• Fortune Teller: You spend time in the dark corners of the web, so we don’t have to. You ingest feeds, analyze adversary actions, and turn exploit rumors into actionable defense strategies
• The Elite Mentor: You’re the leader the pack looks to. You’ll level up our junior analysts/engineers and set the gold standard during on-call rotations
• The Cross-Functional Diplomat: You’ll bridge the gap among IT, DevOps, and Privacy, closing security gaps and ensuring the entire org is as resilient as the tech it uses
• Total Autonomy: We don’t micromanage; we empower. You see a gap? You fix it. Do you see a process that can be automated? You build it

Benefits

• Mental health support resources
• Work from home stipend
• Generous vacation days
• Quarterly recharge company shutdowns
• Parental leave
• Employee equity
• Commuter & parking benefits
• Retirement savings
• Training & development programs
• Employee resource groups
• Mentorship opportunities
• Flexible wellness fund- Security Data Pipeline Engineering
• Proficiency with EDR/XDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, MS Defender), Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca), and WAFs (Cloudflare, Akamai)
• Cyber Intelligence and Threat Hunting
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Detection Engineering
• Experience building data ingestion pipelines using CI/CD methodologies
• Familiarity with attack frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK) and mitigation strategies
• Security Platform Engineering
• SIEM Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in any of the following areas:
• Proven experience building, testing, and tuning custom detection logic and familiarity with Query Languages (KQL, SQL, SPL) for automation needs
• Proficiency in deploying and maintaining Zero Trust security platforms and controls
• Security certifications like GXPN, GCIA, GCTI, GCDA, or similar are a plus
• Ability to read/audit Terraform, Pulumo, or CloudFormation, and experience with Infrastructure as a code(IaC)
• Experience architecting stateful automation pipelines using Python, Go, and enterprise SOAR platforms
• Experience with securing and monitoring containers within cloud environments