Security Incident Response Engineer, Security Posture Improvement and Resilience Engineering

Amazon Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 167.000 - 213.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

401(k)

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Employee discount

Descripción de la vacante

Twitch Interactive, Inc. is seeking a Security Incident Response Engineer to join the SIRT and help detect, respond to, and learn from security incidents across the global platform. This role supports on-call rotations and works with cross-functional teams to protect users and data.

Location options include San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle, with a focus on improving defense posture and resilience through automation, playbooks, and secure incident handling practices.

Formación

• Minimum 3+ years in information security or related field.
• Automation experience with scripting languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl).
• Ability to design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks to automate security ops.
• Experience coordinating security incidents.

Responsabilidades

• Participate in on-call rotation with SIRT peers.
• Qualify alerts and reports to determine incidents.
• Assess impact of incidents and communicate findings.
• Analyze attacker TTPs and techniques.
• Coordinate response with affected teams and customers.
• Document procedures for repeatable, auditable processes.
• Lead lessons learned and drive improvements across the business.

Conocimientos

Incident response

Scripting

Cloud security

IR frameworks

On-call coordination

Educación

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

MS in related field (preferred)

Herramientas

AWS

GCP

CloudTrail

Descripción del empleo

Security Incident Response Engineer, Security Posture Improvement and Resilience Engineering

Job ID: 10547002 | Twitch Interactive, Inc. - D48

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to onLinkedInand X, and discover the projects we’re solving on ourBlog. Be sure to explore ourInterviewing Guideto learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role

Twitch is looking for a Security Incident Response Engineer to join our SIRT. Reporting to the SIRT Manager, you'll be at the heart of our mission to find, handle, and learn from security incidents across our global platform. We're looking for engineers who thrive coordinating response to emerging issues in information security who are ready to level up our defense. If you're passionate about protecting the Twitch community and solving complex security puzzles, we want to hear from you!

You can work from San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; or Seattle, WA.

You Will

• Participate in an on-call rotation that includes your peers on the Security Incident Response Team
• Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what a security incident is
• Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
• Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Participate or create information sharing groups; communicate securely and responsibly
• Write and follow clear procedures so that our work can be accountable, repeated, measured, and improved
• Communicate with peers and leadership about timeline of a security related event with what potential and realized impact, how we discovered it, and how we're handling it
• Coordinate security incident response activities with affected teams to do the right thing for our customers and our organization
• Investigate, document, and implement agentic detection, enrichment, triage, response, and communication automations in every day processes
• Lead lessons learned discussions and help teams effect change across the business that reduces incident recurrence

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of information security and compliance experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
• Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
• Ability to securely design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks to automate common security operations
• Experience coordinating responses to security incidents
• Knowledge of security issues and threat landscape
• Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
• Familiarity with common Incident Response frameworks or lifecycle models like NIST-800-61, ISO/IEC 27035, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Security, or a related technical discipline
• Experience and familiarity with streaming and content creation
• Experience handling security incidents in hybrid cloud environment (AWS, GCP) and conducting log dives on cloud telemetry like CloudTrail
• Passion and excitement for Twitch

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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USA, CA, IRVINE - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually

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