Security Engineer, Incident Response

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Join the team as Twilio’s next Security Engineer, Incident Response

About the job

The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) is looking for a Security Engineer who is passionate about solving Twilio’s mission of security and reliability by working across the organization to lead the technical response to security events and incidents across Twilio’s global infrastructure, services and applications by effectively conducting triage, containment, remediation and driving post-incident betterments.  You will work within a team that partners with R&D Engineering and R&D Business teams to develop scalable processes and technical solutions.

You will be a valued member of a team of deeply technical Security Engineers to focus on creating bespoke and standard Security response processes, enhancing our capabilities for threat mitigation and incident response, and then automating as much as you possibly can (and more)! You will help us to grow our global, scaled team and program.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead and support the response to all security events and incidents across Twilio’s complex global infrastructure, services and applications.
• Be responsible for documentation of incidents and projects you work on and craft best practices as runbooks and standard operating procedures to share knowledge across teams.
• Work cross-collaboratively to understand and help solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of threat actors and activity.
• Work to improve Twilio’s security and reliability posture by driving identified betterments from security events and incidents.
• Rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, highly disruptive industry environment.
• Own the security incident lifecycle, respond to incidents and participate in on-call rotation and participate in RCAs for security incidents.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team’s work.
• Provide mentorship, support, and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness, and success at scale.

Qualifications

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required:

• Proven experience: 3+ years of security incident response in a production-cloud environment
• Subject-matter expert on security issues and technologies
• Ability to utilize AI for comprehensive, complex security incident response activities delivering high fidelity detections
• Advanced knowledge of se…