Staff Threat Management Engineer - Bridgewater Associates

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world's markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Bridgewater's unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other's logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Security Department

The Security Department's mission is to protect Bridgewater. We secure the Investment Engine, which manages over $160 billion in assets for global institutional clients, as well as various business operations functions. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet the business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape.

About Your Role

Staff Threat Management Engineers are the most senior engineers on our Threat Management program. These teammates possess broad vision and a deep understanding of cybersecurity tradecraft. They apply these qualities to shape the teams, processes, and capabilities that let us anticipate, detect, investigate, and respond to information threats. Principals deliver innovative solutions to identify security issues and defend against potential adversaries. They handle complex interrupts to resolve intricate issues and coordinate effective action across the firm.

Successful applicants must possess:

• Experience coordinating cybersecurity incident response (IR) activities
• Superior technical knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Advanced analytical development experience applied to adversary detection
• Fluency in modern DevOps practices and competency writing code.
• Ability to analyze, correlate, and interpret complex events to deliver coherent stories and exercise sound judgement.
• Excellent communications and storytelling skills that promote a collaborative growth-oriented environment among experts and up-and-comers alike
• A knack for automation and prioritization of continuous improvements.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Serve as the highest escalation point for technical analysis and cyber incident response

• Monitor and investigate threats using industry-leading analytic tools and by engaging with world class analysts, technologists, and leaders.
• Automate and document response capabilities to collect and analyze data and artifacts on Bridgewater systems
• Promote readiness by identifying gaps and establishing a rigorous testing cadence for response capabilities
• Collaborate with service teams, security engineers, and other operational teams to tailor defense strategies
• Analyze code to determine capabilities and intentions

• Consume and synthesize industry developments with curiosity and a bias for action
• Advise senior leaders and business partners
• Mentor, train, and develop teammates

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in some of the following:

• • Intrusion analysis, Incident response, and computer forensics
  • Detection engineering, analytics, and threat hunting
  • Software development and automation
  • Threat intelligence analysis and knowledge of threat actor techniques
  • Malware analysis and reverse engineering

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field, or equivalent work experience
• In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity detection and incident response procedures
• Solid understanding of technology fundamentals such as network protocols/ architecture, operating systems, identity services, Zero Trust security, cloud computing (e.g. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), or modern compute stacks (e.g. containers, K8S)
• Strategic thinker and problem solver with excellent analytical and reporting skills
• Ability to use open-source and commercial tooling to quickly close investigations
• Broad information technology experience in designing remediation plans
• Strong oral and written competency, along with outstanding interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively plan, prioritize, and deliver on programs and project

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 – 4 years of experience with languages such as Python, PowerShell, C#, Java, or Scala
• Deep expertise in cloud computing, modern computing, and digital identity
• Experience participating in or collaborating with offensive security teams
• Experience writing ETL pipelines for security data
• Knowledge of advanced malware analysis techniques

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $450,000 - $600,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 60% - 70% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
• Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
• Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer