Staff Engineer

Airbnb’s Threat Detection and Response team identifies, investigates, and responds to internal and external security threats. The Staff Engineer helps define and build threat detection and incident response capabilities, automates detection and response, and partners across the company to improve security.

Responsibilities:

• You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team
• You will get an opportunity to define and execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents
• You will partner with cross-functional partners across the company to improve the overall security of Airbnb driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents resulting in removal of entire classes of problems
• Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics
• Use your coding, data analytics and investigation skills to hunt, detect and respond to threats
• Build automation and detection models to support identification of anomalous activity and response activities to mitigate threats at scale
• Hunt for threats in our corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity
• Work side by side with our engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions to help keep systems and information safe and partner closely with partner teams to carry out complex investigations
• Identify gaps in our infrastructure and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection
• Collaborate well with cross-functional partner teams, such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale response

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations including investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering
• Proficiency in Python or other scripting language
• Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance
• Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence and not authority
• Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical high-stress situations with expediency
• Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
• Knowledge and familiarity of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework and how these apply to the threat landscape
• Experience automating security detection and response
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred
• Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred