Spotify

Spotify

Security Engineer - Detection and Response

New York, NY · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$133k-$190kDetected 26 days ago
PythonCode ReviewGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsCI/CDCybersecuritySIEMSOARSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseResearchCommunicationCollaboration

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • You will turn threat intelligence, incident learnings, and analyst feedback into effective detections and investigation workflows.
  • We teach and learn from one another, adapt as the threat landscape changes, and focus our effort according to business needs and risk.
  • There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Responsibilities

  • Identify detection opportunities, define clear telemetry requirements, and partner with the detection infrastructure squad and data owners to make the signals needed for detection and investigation available.
  • Develop, test, tune, and maintain detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, email, and other security-relevant environments.
  • Build repeatable investigation workflows and playbooks for alert triage, evidence collection, decision-making, escalation, containment, and response.
  • Create cutting-edge AI workflows for Detection and Response that enrich alerts, gather and analyze evidence, guide investigations, and automate repetitive response work while preserving appropriate human judgment and oversight.
  • Use SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and related security platforms to research threats, develop detections, investigate alerts, and validate security outcomes.
  • Share knowledge, document decisions, and communicate security findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • You are curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
  • You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, detection engineering, or closely related work.
  • You are experienced with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or comparable monitoring and response technologies.
  • Experience with Python or a similar language is valuable.
  • You have experience working with at least one major cloud platform, such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
  • You care about clear documentation, inclusive collaboration, and explaining security concepts to people with different backgrounds and levels of expertise.

Skills

  • Security engineers at Spotify protect our platform, employees, creators, and more than 700 million users.

Compensation

  • The United States base range for this position is $132,948-$189,927 USD, plus equity.

Benefits

  • Measure detection effectiveness, identify coverage gaps, and tune detections to balance security value, fidelity, and analyst workload.
  • The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.

Company info

  • Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
  • We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response organization and help identify, investigate, and respond to threats across Spotify's environment.
  • We are a distributed team that values curiosity, sound judgment, clear communication, and continuous learning.

Equal opportunity

  • Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
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