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Senior Security Engineer – Detection Engineering

Senior Security Engineer – Detection Engineering

CompanyFastly
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA, Denver, CO, USA
Salary$181220 – $217464
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Experience in using and maintaining Splunk for investigating threats, developing detections, normalizing data feeds, and integrating with other tools.
  • Familiarity of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and investigating advanced threats.
  • Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Rust.
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Familiarity with modern security frameworks and best practices, such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework and NIST CSF.
  • Experience with Linux administration at scale, associated intrusion/manipulation techniques, and standard methodologies for system hardening and process isolation.

Responsibilities

  • Develop detections and other analytics to identify threats across cloud, corporate, and edge environments.
  • Investigate potential security threats and support security incidents.
  • Research, evaluate, implement, and maintain a variety of custom and commercial security tools, such as EDR, SOAR, and SIEM.
  • Build custom tooling and automations to improve the detection lifecycle and security incident response.
  • Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and other detection and response documentation.
  • Conduct threat hunts to discover unknown malicious activity across our environment.
  • Participate in our on-call rotations.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Published security research or have spoken at community events on threat detection or incident response.
  • Developed automations or tooling to improve security operations.
  • Have experience developing or deploying a detection CI/CD pipeline, including developing testing criteria and continuous validation (e.g., Splunk Attack Range or Atomic Red Team).
  • Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDN), edge cloud platforms, or Fastly products and services.