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Salary: USD 166,600 - 212,800 / annual
Twitch is seeking a Security Incident Response Engineer to join its Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Reporting to the SIRT Manager, you will be at the center of identifying, handling, and learning from security incidents across Twitch's global live streaming platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in on-call rotation with peers on the SIRT
- Qualify reports and alerts as security incidents using established guidelines
- Evaluate potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
- Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Participate in or create information sharing groups with secure communication
- Write and maintain clear procedures for accountability, repeatability, and continuous improvement
- Communicate incident timelines, impact, discovery methods, and response strategies to peers and leadership
- Coordinate incident response activities with affected teams to protect customers and the organization
- Investigate, document, and implement automated detection, enrichment, triage, response, and communication workflows
- Lead post-incident lessons learned discussions and drive organizational changes to reduce recurrence
You can work from San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; or Seattle, WA.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of relevant information security work experience, or equivalent BS degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
- Ability to securely design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks to automate common security operations
- Experience coordinating responses to security incidents
- Knowledge of security issues and threat landscape
- Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
- Familiarity with common Incident Response frameworks or lifecycle models (NIST-800-61, ISO/IEC 27035, etc.)
Bonus:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Security, or related technical discipline
- Experience with streaming and content creation
- Experience handling security incidents in hybrid cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and conducting log analysis on cloud telemetry (CloudTrail)
- Passion for Twitch
