Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection and Response

Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection and Response

Company: Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

The Threat Detection and Response team (TDR) at Airbnb is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and working with partner teams to build capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. This is the front-line team that detects, investigates, and responds to security threats and malicious activity.

As a senior engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimising, and growing securing capabilities as you help deliver world-class threat detection and incident response.

The Difference You Will Make:

• You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) EMEA team.
• You will define and execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents.
• You will partner with cross-functional teams to improve the overall security of Airbnb driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents.

A Typical Day:

• Investigation & Response: Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensic artifacts, log data analysis, and developing automation for investigation & response capabilities.
• Incident Handling: Coordinate and drive resolution on a diverse range of incidents as part of an on-call team.
• Detection Engineering: Create and automate threat detection and hunting based on indicators observed during incident response.
• Technical Leadership: Help define and execute strategy for threat detection and incident response.
• Influence & Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams for efficient, large-scale response.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security engineering, systems engineering, software engineering, network engineering, or privacy engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in incident response including host and cloud forensics, incident management, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or security detection.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to lead people in complex situations through influence.
• Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical situations.
• Outstanding organisational, prioritisation, and multitasking skills.
• Experience automating security detection and response.
• Experience with tools such as Python, AWS, SQL, etc.

This is a remote-friendly position. However, due to certain restrictions, we can only offer this position in Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.