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Salary: USD 159,300 - 202,400 / annual
Twitch, the world's largest live streaming platform, is seeking a Security Incident Response Engineer to join its Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Reporting to the SIRT Manager, you will be central to identifying, managing, and learning from security incidents across Twitch's global platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in on-call rotation with SIRT peers to respond to emerging security issues
- Qualify and triage security incident reports and alerts using established guidelines
- Evaluate potential and realized impact of security incidents to the platform and users
- Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Participate in and create information-sharing groups with secure, responsible communication
- Develop and maintain clear, repeatable procedures for incident response that enable accountability and continuous improvement
- Communicate incident timelines, discovery methods, impact, and response strategies to peers and leadership
- Coordinate incident response activities with affected teams to protect customers and the organization
- Design and implement AI/ML-driven detection, enrichment, triage, response, and communication automations
- 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 a BS degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
- Ability to securely design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks for security operations automation
- Experience coordinating responses to security incidents
- Knowledge of security issues and current threat landscape
- Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
- Familiarity with incident response frameworks or lifecycle models (NIST-800-61, ISO/IEC 27035, etc.)
Bonus Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Security, or related technical discipline
- Experience with streaming and content creation platforms
- Experience handling security incidents in hybrid cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and conducting log analysis on cloud telemetry (CloudTrail)
- Passion for Twitch and its community
