Staff Security Engineer

Twilio•,

12d•$155,520 - $228,700•Remote

About The Position

The Threat Detection and Response team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer who is passionate about solving the business’s toughest technical-security challenges; you will work within a Security Engineering 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 tooling, 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

Proven experience: 3+ years of security engineering in a production-cloud environment
Subject-matter expert on security issues and technologies
Experience designing and building AI Agents and Agentic workflows
Ability to utilize AI for comprehensive, complex threat hunting activities delivering high fidelity detections
Experience detecting and responding to next generation, Artificial Intelligence threats following MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) or similar framework
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 with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Cloudformation
Experience in either AWS, GCP, or other large cloud platform

Nice To Haves

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with every level of the organization.
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Participate in daily operations tasks including, on-call rotation, architecting and developing well-engineered and performant detective tooling and automation, participating in applications/systems threat modeling, and participating in Incident Response activities
Work with the team to align the Detection and Response vision and strategy, while engaging the team to develop and ship specific, multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects, ensuring prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment
Work cross-collaboratively to understand and help solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of threat actors and activity
Proactively identify areas that would most benefit the improvement of our business, inclusive of the Incident Response program and with consideration of company/organizational objectives
Challenge the status quo; perform technology research, security research, and architecture reviews needed for a thorough understanding of the Twilio platform to understand what we are defending and how best to defend it
Building systems and services to make the most complex security problems simple and frictionless
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