Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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 internal & external security threats and malicious activity.

This is a key role to help define and execute our vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities and process while mentoring other team members. As a senior engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, 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) 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.

A Typical Day: 

• 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.

Your Expertise:

• 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. We also use SQL and Pandas frequently.
• 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 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.
• Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred
• We are not focused on specific tools but we often use Python, AWS, SQL, and more.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. 

Pay Range

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

$196,000—$227,000 USD