SoFi

Staff Security Detection Engineer, Machine Learning

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2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, tune, validate, and maintain machine-learning models for security anomaly detection and risk scoring.
  • Operationalize models and detections in production with enrichment, correlation, response hooks, versioning, rollback, and detection-as-code practices.
  • Engineer features from identity, endpoint, network, cloud, SaaS, and application telemetry in security data lakes and streaming pipelines.
  • Partner with the SOC to triage alerts, incorporate analyst dispositions as labels, reduce noise, and maintain runbooks.
  • Translate threat hypotheses and security or fraud scenarios into model-backed analytics with measurable success metrics.
  • Establish model governance through evaluation, drift and data-quality monitoring, retraining, re-baselining, explainability, traceability, and privacy controls.
  • Participate in incident reviews, identify coverage gaps, and deliver resulting models and detections.
  • Contribute to security ML platform architectures, standards, and documentation, and mentor engineers and analysts.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production machine-learning models for detection or anomaly detection across supervised and unsupervised approaches.
  • Experience with data lakes and big-data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Delta or Iceberg, and S3 or GCS.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills with hands-on use of pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Understanding of identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and SaaS security telemetry and how to convert it into model features.
  • Working knowledge of statistical baselining, clustering, isolation forests, autoencoders, time-series methods, and the end-to-end model lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, the kill chain, and adversary tradecraft.
  • Experience collaborating with SOC/DFIR and fraud or risk teams, with strong written communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes streaming data engineering, AWS machine-learning deployment, MLOps, graph-based analytics, deep learning or LLM-based security applications, and relevant cloud, data engineering, or Databricks certifications.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits are available through SoFi’s Benefits page.
  • Remote work cannot be accommodated from Hawaii or Alaska due to insurance coverage issues.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPandasPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSnowflakeSQLTensorFlow
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About SoFi

5,001-10,000 employees

SoFi provides consumer banking, lending, and investing products, including student-loan refinancing, personal loans, mortgages, checking and savings, a credit card, and brokerage. It earns interest and fee revenue across SoFi Bank, N.A., and related subsidiaries, serving U.S. consumers via a mobile app. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, SoFi Technologies is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker SOFI.

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