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Junior Threat Detection Engineer
Company | Bumble |
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Location | Austin, TX, USA |
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Salary | $99000 – $140000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Junior |
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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