Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Threat Detection and Response (TDR) team. This team is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and building capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. As a senior engineer, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, and growing security capabilities to deliver world-class threat detection and incident response.

• Perform investigations of security incidents using digital forensics and data analytics.
• Use coding, data analytics, and investigation skills to hunt, detect, and respond to threats.
• Build automation and detection models to identify anomalous activity and mitigate threats at scale.
• Hunt for threats in corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity.
• Work with engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions and partner on complex investigations.
• Identify gaps in infrastructure and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale response.

• 5+ years of hands-on 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; SQL and Pandas are also used.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.
• 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.
• Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
• Knowledge of Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
• Experience automating security detection and response.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred.

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states.

Pay Range: $196,000—$227,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Apply via the provided link. For disability accommodations, contact reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.