Night-Shift Forensics & IR Analyst (AI-Powered)

Yahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

On-call rotation

Job summary

Yahoo's safety-focused Security Operations team (The Paranoids) is seeking a curious security analyst for the weekend night shift to monitor, triage and investigate security events using Yahoo's internal detection platforms, SIEM and AI-augmented workflows to protect user data and corporate assets at Internet scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, perform containment and remediation, tune alerts, and contribute to threat hunting exercises.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in security fundamentals including network/host forensics, log analysis, and basic malware triage.
• Interest in information security and incident response.
• Understanding of common network services and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience navigating Windows, macOS, and Linux logs.
• Familiarity with AI productivity tools or AI coding assistants.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, and analyze security events from networks, applications, endpoints, and cloud data stores using AI-assisted tools.
• Assess security incidents, perform initial containment actions, and coordinate with Yahoo units to remediate issues.
• Identify repetitive tasks and partner with engineers to implement AI-driven efficiencies and automated playbooks.
• Tune detection signatures and develop new alerting use cases for malicious activity.
• Evaluate new log sources and contribute to detection engineering rules under senior mentorship.
• Collaborate on threat hunting exercises and table-top simulations.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and shift handoff logs.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation as required.

Skills

Security fundamentals

MITRE ATT&CK

Windows/macOS/Linux

AI productivity tools

Communication

Tools

SIEM platforms

Databricks

Shell scripting/Python

Job description

Yahoo's safety-focused Security Operations team (The Paranoids) is seeking a curious security analyst for the weekend night shift to monitor, triage and investigate security events using Yahoo's internal detection platforms, SIEM and AI-augmented workflows to protect user data and corporate assets at Internet scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, perform containment and remediation, tune alerts, and contribute to threat hunting exercises.