Senior Security Engineer - Threat Detection & Response

Snapchat, Inc.; Santa Clarita (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in RSUs

Office in California

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response (D&R) team. You will design, pilot, and implement logging and alerting systems to detect malicious activity across endpoints, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments.

You will build automation to hunt threats, investigate incidents, and drive rapid response. You will leverage AI tools, work with multiple teams during incidents, and develop threat intelligence on TTPs used by advanced threat actors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related technical field.
• 6+ years of post-bachelor security experience; or MS +5 years; or PhD +2 years.
• Experience in threat hunting and automating threat detection and incident response.
• Familiarity with cloud services and infrastructure (Google Cloud, AWS, Workspace).
• Excellent verbal and written communication with high attention to detail.
• Practical experience with BeyondCorp security model.

Responsibilities

• Design, pilot, and implement logging and alerting systems to detect malicious activity on Snap Inc.'s endpoints, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments.
• Build tools and automation strategies to improve threat hunting and incident response.
• Investigate events generated by the alerting pipeline and triage potential incidents.
• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code.
• Work closely with multiple Snap Inc. teams during incidents and drive response efforts.
• Identify, analyze, fingerprint and build threat intelligence on trends and developments in adversary TTPs.

Skills

digital forensics

malware analysis

incident management

host intrusion detection

network intrusion detection

threat intelligence

Python

Go

AI tooling

OS internals

macOS

Windows

Linux

Kubernetes

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience

Master’s degree in a technical field

PhD in a relevant technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response (D&R) team. You will design, pilot, and implement logging and alerting systems to detect malicious activity across endpoints, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments.

You will build automation to hunt threats, investigate incidents, and drive rapid response. You will leverage AI tools, work with multiple teams during incidents, and develop threat intelligence on TTPs used by advanced threat actors.