Security Engineer, Incident Response

Security Engineer, Incident Response
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Meta Security is looking for an Incident Response Engineer with experience coordinating, investigating and responding to internal and external threats. You will help the team establish, lead and execute multi-year roadmaps to mature investigative and response services, drawing upon automation and cross functional partnerships to create scalable and resilient operational capabilities.
Security Engineer, Incident Response Responsibilities
  • Conduct security investigations and lead security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution.
  • Develop Incident Response initiatives that improve our capabilities to effectively respond and remediate security incidents.
  • Refine operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to measure Security Operations and Incident Response services.
  • Influence and align the team’s vision and strategy. Collaboratively prioritize and deliver specific multi-year roadmaps and projects.
  • Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of detection and response initiatives.
  • Collaborate with software and production engineering teams to develop scalable and flexible Incident Response and Investigative solutions.
  • Focus on ruthlessly prioritizing, automating and scaling every aspect of our detection and response capabilities.
  • Coach, mentor, support and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness and success at scale.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 10+ years of work experience in Security Incident Response and Detection & Response Engineering in a large, regulated organization.
  • Be a technical and process subject matter expert regarding Security Operations and Incident Response services.
  • Experience developing and delivering information on incident and program status for senior leadership.
  • Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs.
  • Experience responding to both external and insider threats.
  • Experience analyzing network and host-based security events.
  • Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols.
  • Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
  • Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages.
  • Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Background in malware analysis, digital forensics, intrusion detection, and/or threat intelligence.
  • Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems.
  • Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Detection and/or response tool development.
  • Experience recruiting, building, and leading technical teams, including performance management.
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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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