Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response

Twilio•,

3d•$141,520 - $208,000•Remote

About The Position

The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) is looking for a Senior 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.

Requirements

5+ 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 service-oriented architectures, as well as experience with security tools and technologies fit for a cloud environment
Experience working across a technology stack on difficult security challenges and initiatives
Experience with SIEM platforms and the ability to extend their functionality
Experience with SOAR tools and automating manual security processes
Experience in either AWS, GCP, or other large cloud platform
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with every level of the organization.

Nice To Haves

AI Model Security & Posture Management: Support Implementation of controls and safeguards to prevent AI vulnerabilities, such as prompt injections, model evasion, and data poisoning
AI-Driven Threat Response: Utilize GenAI and LLM-based security use cases to rapidly interpret alerts, reduce false positives, and contextualize threat data
Artifact & Evidence Triage: Collects intrusion artifacts and forensically sound images to analyze malware, trojans, and source code.
Threat Intelligence Integration: Monitors external vendor data and threat intelligence to analyze trends and proactively defend against emerging risks

Responsibilities

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.