Security Incident Response Engineer, Security Posture Improvement and Resilience Engineering

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability

401(k)

Maternity & Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Amazon Employee Discount

Job summary

Twitch is seeking a Security Incident Response Engineer to join the SIRT in San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle. You will handle security incidents, coordinate across teams, and help improve detection and response playbooks to protect the Twitch platform.

Ideal candidates have strong incident response experience, cloud security knowledge, and the ability to design AI/ML-driven automations. This on-site role emphasizes collaboration and continuous security improvements across our global operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of information security and compliance experience or degree in a related field
• Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
• Ability to design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks to automate 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 IR frameworks or lifecycle models (NIST-800-61, ISO/IEC 27035)

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotation within the Security Incident Response Team
• Qualify reports/alerts to classify security incidents
• Evaluate potential impact of incidents on Twitch
• Analyze threat actor TTPs
• Coordinate with teams to respond to incidents
• Write procedures to ensure repeatable, measurable work
• Communicate incident timelines to peers and leadership
• Lead lessons learned discussions and drive cross-team changes
• Investigate, document, and implement detection and automation in daily processes

Skills

InfoSec experience

Automation scripting

AI/ML playbooks

Incident response coordination

Threat landscape knowledge

Cloud security

NIST/ISO familiarity

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/Engineering/Software Security

Related technical discipline

Job description

Description

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 on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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

USA, CA, SAN FRANCISCO - 166,600.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually