Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join our Threat Detection and Response team at Airbnb as a Senior Engineer to define and execute threat detection and incident response capabilities, and make a significant impact on the company's security.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, network engineering, or privacy engineering
• 3+ of those years of experience in incident response including host and cloud forensics, incident management, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or security detection
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence and not authority
• Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical situations with expediency
• Outstanding organisational, prioritisation, and multitasking skills
• Experience automating security detection and response

Responsibilities

• Investigation & Response: Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge and understanding of digital forensic artifacts, log data analysis and/or developing automation for investigation & response capabilities that scale
• Incident Handling: Coordinate and drive resolution on a diverse range of incidents as part of an on-call team. Analyse root causes, trends and systematic issues
• Detection Engineering: Create and automate threat detection and hunting based on indicators observed during incident response or from other threat intelligence
• Technical Leadership: Help define and execute strategy for threat detection and incident response
• Influence & Communication: Collaborate well with cross-functional partner teams, such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale response

Benefits

This is a remote-friendly position