Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in detection and response related security roles
• Experience working with AWS (or similar cloud environment), Linux, OSX, SentinelOne (or other similar endpoint security software)
• Experience working with DataDog (or other similar log analysis and querying software)
• Familiarity with modern programming languages of some kind such as Ruby, Python, Rust, JavaScript, and similar.
• Proficient in responding to alerts and incidents within a cloud based SAAS environment
• Adaptable thinker, able to creatively solve old problems in new ways and new problems in old ways
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with other teams to plan a project, align priorities, lead and model the work, document your decisions, and complete the project
• Understands ways to catch wily threat actors
• Possesses the fine art of crafting useful, actionable, high signal alerts
• Proficiency in automating detection and response processes through API calls, webhook creation, etc.
• Willingness and ability to participate in the response to critical incidents as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating potential detection techniques and tools and using them to create useful, actionable, high signal alerts.
• Developing automation and improving existing tooling and alerting to minimize alert fatigue and maximize effective incident response.
• Collaborating will be key as you will work closely with IT, Engineering, Support and other teams across the company.
• You will play a vital role in managing security incidents, from assembling the response team to organizing and leading blameless retrospectives. You'll also help develop clear response processes for various types of incidents and playbooks for various alerts generated by our tools.