Incident Response Security Engineer
The Incident Response Security Engineer will build detection, response, and security automation capabilities for large-scale cloud infrastructure. The role requires hands-on incident response and product security experience, cloud expertise, and strong development skills in Go or Python.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Develop processes, tooling, and automation to scale incident management and response and mitigate business risks.
- Collaborate with security, engineering, product, support, and business operations teams to identify detection use cases and automation opportunities.
- Apply threat-modeling practices to incident detection and response.
- Maintain the security logging platform.
- Track emerging threats and attack vectors to improve detection mechanisms and attack surface management.
- Handle information security events and incidents across products and services.
Requirements
- Experience in product security, red teaming, penetration testing, or threat modeling combined with incident detection and response experience.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Experience securing large-scale, customer-facing cloud infrastructure.
- Significant software development and automation experience, preferably with Go and Python.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in computer science or a related field.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Security or cloud certifications, including AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Compensation and Benefits
- Equity through company stock options.
- Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.
Skills
Incident Response, Threat Modeling, Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Security Logging, Go, Python, Cloud Security, Security Automation
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