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Junior Threat Detection Engineer

Junior Threat Detection Engineer

CompanyBumble
LocationAustin, TX, USA
Salary$99000 – $140000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelJunior

Requirements

  • Proficient in security incident response and management
  • Security knowledge of Linux and familiarity of macOS and Windows
  • Experience in security device output, event and alert consumption
  • Basic understanding of common threat defence coding languages such as Python or Go or experience in threat identification and response using other languages
  • Knowledge of key log sources of OS, applications, databases and middleware to address security threats
  • Strong and demonstrable practical experience responding to common threats such as malware, and social engineering. Experience must include effective use of threat artefacts, IOCs, and behavioural factors.
  • Familiar with threats including DDOS, web and mobile application security risks
  • Experience of security tooling within a corporate environment including, commercial sandboxes, proxies, DLP, OSINT, vulnerability management, cyber and vendor risk management
  • Readiness to expand technical skill set, both through self-study and formal training

Responsibilities

  • Primarily responsible for security event monitoring, detection and response, as a part of a multi-disciplinary 24/7 on-call rota
  • Eagerness to contribute across all stages of a security incident, from initial detection, triage and remediation
  • Contribute to the organisation’s vulnerability management program; including detection, analysis and supporting remediation.
  • Identify, prototype and deploy technical solutions to automate event correlation and detection
  • Operate with a focus to meet or exceed response SLAs; continuously seeking process improvements to achieve operational objectives
  • Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring
  • Contribute to establishing, developing, and revising processes to build and strengthen the overall company operational security posture
  • Contribute to threat management, and threat modelling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring
  • Contribute to the integration of standard and non-standard logs in the SIEM

Preferred Qualifications

  • Your values align strongly with the Bumble Inc. values: Growth, Kindness, Equity, Accountability, and Honesty
  • Motivation to solve problems, not to patch over quick fixes
  • Being on-call shouldn’t be a burden to you or to team members. We want to be curious about our defences and filter noise to automate signal
  • Ability to multi-task and handle high-pressure situations with key stakeholders
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
  • Willingness to learn to perform threat detection and enrichment through the use of data science tooling and techniques