Senior Detection Engineer

23andMe Research Institute•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

23andMe is looking for an experienced Detection Engineer to join our Security Operations Team. You will bring critical thinking skills, hands-on experience with Enterprise Security design and the ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams (Engineering, IT, NetOps and Architecture). You’ll be leveraging your experience and expertise with enterprise security tools and industry best practices to secure our customer data and corporate assets. Who We Are We are a group of individuals passionate about genetic discovery. 23andMe Research Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that enables people everywhere to access their genetic information, learn about themselves, and participate in the world's largest crowdsourced research initiative. The Institute aims to be the world's most significant contributor to scientific advancement, uniting people with the common goal of improving health and deepening our understanding of DNA — the code of life.

Requirements

Passion for security!
Familiarity with how attacks are conducted against network infrastructure, web applications and employees
Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, osquery/FleetDM, and other security tools, with the ability to triage alerts effectively to identify potential threats
Some knowledge and capability with one or more scripting and programming languages (e.g., bash, Go, Python, etc.)
Experience implementing threat detection through security-as-code (e.g., Terraform)
Experience in evaluating the qualitative and quantitative effectiveness of security alerts
Familiarity with building product base alerting
Working knowledge of operating systems (e.g., MacOS, Windows, Linux)
Hands-on experience with information security tools in Google Workspace, Cloudflare, Okta, and AWS
Strong understanding of security concepts such as incident response, cloud security monitoring, network security monitoring, host based analysis, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, CIA triad, and Zero Trust
Sound familiarity with AWS security concepts
Ability to communicate well and work with others
Ability to think critically about challenging problems to determine the most effective method to solve and address
A minimum of 3 years of experience with managing large scale enterprise security infrastructure including security solution design and hands-on engineering
B.S./M.S. in computer science, engineering, information systems, IT, Information Security, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Work within the Security Operations Team to identify threats within the environment through traditional threat hunting techniques
Work collaboratively to speed up response time and to determine the state of the potential threat / alert
Assist the security organization to identify automation opportunities and work to implement those integrations and automation improvements within the security tooling
Participate in an on-call rotation with additional bonus opportunities
Leverage multiple security techniques and tools daily, including but not limited to use of tools for: intrusion detection, endpoint detection and response, and SIEM
Actively threat hunt within security tools and determine steps to triage and filter the true events from background noise
Create and use threat hunting playbooks
Create and use security operations runbooks to respond to alerts
Design and implement new security playbooks and automation
Define, design, and build threat detection methodologies; help to improve the security posture of the company
Lead by example and share your creativity, wit and experience across the team, working on a variety of tasks ranging from threat detection within multiple enterprise security tools, assessing threats and providing targeted responses and monitoring the corporate environment for potential risks
Integrate, configure, and maintain SIEM tools
Train and mentor security engineers and analysts to utilize SIEM technology
Manage and improve our incident response workflow, implement mitigation plans in cooperation with Engineering, SecOps, AppSec, and IT teams
Help teams to leverage the existing and emerging logging and monitoring solutions, extract security events from the logs with filter/correlation tools, evaluate misconfiguration and intrusion detection signals, automate as much as possible
Improve our vulnerability management program: setup and integrate security scans, triage and mitigate vulnerabilities, communicate required actions to relevant teams
Implement, monitor and support Product, corporate IT and infrastructure security solutions, including: Configure, manage and optimize logging, monitoring, correlation and alerting tools, and the orchestration through a security information and event management (SIEM) solution Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution focusing on PII and Intellectual Property related data. Detect and respond: Deploy Threat Intelligence products and develop threat reports
Assist with the design, development, delivery, documentation, training, and reporting on security control mechanisms (e.g., WAF, endpoint-protection/AV/EDR, etc.)
Evaluate security technologies; work closely with vendors to ensure timely delivery of products, services, and feature requests
Risk and evidence-based approach: Identify, assess, and prioritize security risks to Product, Infrastructure, Enterprise data and systems, including external threats, internal threats, and exposure to third-party vulnerabilities
Other duties as assigned.