Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.

Snap Security teams protect the trust and safety of our global community by securing the systems and data that power Snapchat. We safeguard hundreds of millions of Snapchatters every day ensuring that every product and service is built on a foundation of security and resilience. Our values guide everything we do - from how we anticipate and mitigate threats to how we collaborate across Snap. We move fast with precision and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

Were looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help improve Snaps ability to detect investigate and respond to security threats.

You will build and tune detections support investigations develop automation and partner with teams across Snap to improve security visibility and response workflows.

What Youll Do

• Build and improve detections across endpoint cloud infrastructure SaaS and network environments
• Support logging alerting triage and monitoring improvements
• Investigate security alerts and contribute to incident response
• Develop automation to improve detection triage and response workflows
• Contribute to threat hunting detection tuning and response playbooks
• Turn threat intelligence and investigation findings into practical detection improvements
• Partner with security infrastructure and engineering teams to improve coverage

What Youll Bring

• 4 years of relevant security experience or Masters with 3 years or PhD with 1 year
• Experience in detection and response incident response security operations forensics malware analysis threat intelligence or security engineering
• Strong coding or scripting skills in Python Go or a similar language
• Solid systems knowledge in at least two of: macOS Windows Linux Kubernetes AWS GCP
• Experience working with cloud endpoint network infrastructure or SaaS security data
• Strong judgement clear communication and a collaborative mindset

Nice to Have

• Experience with threat hunting or detection engineering
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Google Workspace and AWS
• Experience with SIEM EDR SOAR data pipelines or security analytics platforms
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK attacker tradecraft and detection coverage mapping

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