Senior Security Engineer: Threat Detection and Response
Airbnb's mission is to connect hosts with guests worldwide, fostering authentic community experiences.
The Team You Will Join:
The Threat Detection and Response (TDR) team focuses on automating security detection, responding to incidents, and building capabilities that support the incident lifecycle.
This team detects, investigates, and responds to security threats and malicious activity.
Your Key Responsibilities:
* You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response EMEA team.
* You will define and execute novel approaches to detecting, containing, and mitigating threats and incidents.
* You will partner with cross-functional teams to improve Airbnb's overall security through learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents.
A Typical Day:
* Investigation & Response: Perform investigations of security incidents using digital forensic artifacts, log data analysis, 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. Analyze 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.
Your Expertise:
* 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, network engineering, or privacy engineering.
* 3+ 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 situations through influence and not authority.
* Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical situations with expediency.
* Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
* Experience automating security detection and response.
* We use Python, AWS, SQL, and more.
Location:
This is a remote-friendly position, available in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible, fostering diverse ideas, engagement, and innovation, and developing the best products, services, and solutions.