Senior Security Detection Engineer, Global Security Organization

s part of the Threat Detection and Response function, the Detection Engineering team focuses on improving our detection capabilities to identify malicious threats. This can involve data engineering to enrich and scale the pipelines, or analysing adversarial tradecraft and developing signals or creating tools to improve our Detection and Response capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Research emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits relevant to our infrastructure and products.
• Develop new methods and technologies to detect threats , identify attack surfaces, and design data-driven approaches that use these signals to identify security threats.
• Lead cross-functional projects to implement and design security controls or tools, that enable us to better protect & detect attack vectors.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of security incidents, supporting incident response teams during investigations.
• Perform gap assessment to identify and improve tooling capabilities and detection strategy.
• Develop and optimize automations to scale detection and response capabilities.
• Utilize threat modeling and log analysis to build behavioral based detections.
• Work with stakeholders to discover new detection capabilities and logging sources.
• Apply cutting-edge AI technologies/Machine Learning (ML) to develop innovative AI solutions for security

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Possess a strong understanding of security fundamentals across networks, hosts, applications, and containers, with the ability to comprehensively address various security threats.
• Proficient in at least one of the following security products: WAF, HIDS, NTA, EDR or DLP, with practical experience in strategy development and knowledge of industry best practices/ frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, etc).
• Proficient in using one or more coding languages to analyse logs, identify anomalies, and propose detection strategies.
• Familiar with Detection-as-Code pipelines, integrating with in-house security tools to scale custom detections.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of applicable experience in Detection Engineering, Incident Response or Offensive Security
• Bachelors' Degree or industry equivalent work experience in CyberSecurity with a focus on security analytics and incident response
• Proficient in using Python and related tools (numpy, pandas, sklearn, e.g.) to analyse logs, identify anomalies, and propose detection strategies.
• Familiar with common security offense/defense techniques, with hands-on experience in developing and implementing detection rules at scale.
• Strong communication skills, ability to collaborate effectively with team members, self-motivated, and team-oriented.
• Preferred certifications - GCIA, GCIH, GREM, OSCP, OSCE³

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $208800 - $438000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.