About Lead Bank
Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound.
Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.
Information Security Team at Lead
The Information Security team helps Lead stay nimble enough to move fast without compromising on safety. They own cybersecurity, overseeing detection and response, and building security controls for all data networks, cloud infrastructures, and IT systems. Working closely with the Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams, they ensure Lead meets and stays up to date on all security standards. Scaling the systems that protect Lead and the fintechs we serve requires critical thinking, good judgment, and an ownership mentality. This is a collaborative team of builders who approach problems creatively, constantly iterating to improve the security of our platform.
Role Description
Lead Bank is looking for a Senior Security Analyst to join our Security Operations team. You'll be a core contributor to our detection and response capabilities — building detections, triaging alerts, responding to incidents, and proactively hunting threats across cloud infrastructure, security tooling, and data pipelines. You'll mentor junior analysts and partner with leadership to drive our security posture forward. Your expertise will be vital in navigating the complex regulatory landscape of the banking industry and defending against advanced persistent threats.
In this role you will:
Build, tune, and maintain detection rules and alerts in our SIEM, writing queries to identify threats and coverage gaps aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
Own incident response execution end-to-end — containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned — including forensic log analysis and post-incident reporting
Monitor and investigate security events across endpoints, cloud (AWS), identity, and network telemetry — identifying misconfigurations, anomalous activity, and suspicious behavior
Assist with security audits and regulatory examinations, ensuring timely and accurate security documentation and evidence is provided
Analyze systems, applications, and networks for security configurations in partnership with security engineers.
Manage log pipelines including ingestion, parsing, normalization, and enrichment to ensure high-fidelity data is available for detection and investigation
Triage and prioritize vulnerability findings using risk-based frameworks and track remediation SLAs with IT and Engineering
Collaborate with Engineering on IaC and CI/CD security reviews, and contribute to runbooks and playbooks
Perform all other duties as assigned
What we are looking for:
Required
5+ years in information security or security operations
Hands-on SIEM experience with query writing, detection building, and alert tuning
Strong working knowledge of cloud security concepts and services (AWS preferred; GCP and Azure also considered)
Proficiency working with logs across endpoint, cloud, network, identity, and application sources
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) from a security perspective
Solid grasp of Windows, macOS, and Linux internals — processes, persistence mechanisms, and attacker TTPs
Demonstrated IR experience, including leading or contributing to investigations
Familiarity with data normalization, log parsing, and ETL concepts
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
Experience with log routing, transformation, and enrichment
Hands-on experience with an enterprise EDR/XDR platform and its ecosystem tooling — SOAR, exposure management, and identity protection
Experience with network security tools and interpreting proxy or web traffic logs Background in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare) with familiarity with NIST CSF, GLBA, or FFIEC
Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash) for detection engineering, workflow automation, and version-controlled code in GitHub
Relevant certifications: CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GCED, CEH, GDSA, or equivalent
Nice to Have
Detection as Code experience using version-controlled detection content
Exposure to identity security tooling
What we offer:
At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life
Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
Paid parental leave
Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
**Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone 1: $142,875 - $170,910 (NYC)
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