Staff Security Engineer - Threat Detection
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The Reddit Security Intelligence Center (RSIC) is seeking a Staff Security Engineer - Threat Detection. This is an opportunity to have an outsized impact on a highly skilled and motivated team. We look for humble experts with a relentlessly resourceful and entrepreneurial “can do” view of security. RSIC engineers analyze security threats, build detections, and respond to security events. We value broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of data analytics, system forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and application, endpoint, & infrastructure security.
If you are passionate about data, security, threat models, and building creative mitigations, we need you. The ideal candidate has a strong coding background, and has worked as part of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). We are looking for extensive experience building creative detections and response automations, mapping detections to various security models, deriving actionable intelligence to provide high fidelity alerting. You will help build a scalable detection and incident response system to analyze security events and find anomalies across Reddit’s technical ecosystem (endpoints, cloud, and SaaS).
What You'll Do:
- Identify and build high-quality detections, playbooks, and solutions that improve Reddit’s detection and response capabilities
- Evaluate the impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research, coordinating detection and response as necessary
- Drive actionability to detections and take feedback from incident response across multiple cross-functional teams
- Work alongside and mentor engineers to improve security and reduce risk
- Influence the collection of telemetry and observability spanning sources like endpoints (Mac, Windows, Linux), Cloud (AWS and GCP), Kubernetes, and SaaS applications.
- Keep your knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape
- Participate in an on-call rotation (high fidelity detections matter)
What We Can Expect From You:
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience analyzing data, writing detections, and leading security incident response
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C++
- Hands on expertise with Splunk SIEM & SOAR solutions, with deep experience in developing Risked Based Alerting (RBA)
- Proficient in threat hunting hypothesis forming and evaluation, and evidence gathering and coalescence
- Extensive experience with GitOps in threat detection pipelines, knows their way around a command line
- Technical depth in one or more specialties including: application security, cloud infrastructure security, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting or some combination thereof
- Strong understanding of security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation
- Deep knowledge of various endpoint operating systems, security tools, cloud providers, and architecture designs
- Demonstrated knowledge of security data pipeline architecture designs
- Relevant industry certifications from SANS, SIEM vendors, etc.
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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The base pay range for this position is:
$198,200—$297,300 USD
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