Auth0, a global leader in Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), provides thousands of enterprise customers with a Universal Identity Platform for their web, mobile, IoT, and internal applications. Its extensible platform seamlessly authenticates and secures more than 2.5B logins per month, making it loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises.
Auth0 has raised more than $210 million in funding to date and continues its global growth at a rapid pace. We are consistently recognized as a great place to work based our outstanding leadership and dedication to company culture. We are looking for the best people to join our incredible team spread across more than 35 countries. Come join us!
Auth0 gives companies simple, powerful and developer friendly building blocks so they can free up resources to focus on innovation. We strive to be the identity platform of choice of developers and Enterprises. We take ourculturevery seriously and are looking for people who are drawn to both our missionandour culture.
We are a security company and Auth0’s Security team is in the privileged position of supporting a security first culture for a company that wants to make the internet safer.
We are looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to join our team and help us build a threat detection and response program at a cloud-native, remote-friendly and web-scale company that’s experiencing hyper-growth.
In this role you will:
Respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future
Use your experience and security intuition to hunt for threats across enterprise and production environments. If we’re missing important data we need, go get it!
Build automation workflows for common response scenarios
Act as an escalation point after automated triage of alerts
Perform variant analysis and root cause analysis to find systematic bugs
Develop creative solutions to complex security problems which balance business needs and risk
Keep knowledge and skills current to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape
Fulfill regular on-call responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will have:
Excellent analytical thinking, time management and coordination skills
Excellent English language skills (both written and verbal)
Strong demonstrable knowledge of common attack vectors
Familiarity/experience with AWS services and security concepts
Experience with common security monitoring, log analysis and forensic tools
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
Have a passion to learn and thrive in a dynamic and constantly changing environment
Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent OR 3-5 years working in a high-demand security team
Bonus points for:
- Experience working as a senior part of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or Security Operations Team
Preferred locations:
- (GMT-8); (GMT-7); (GMT-6); (GMT-5); (GMT-4);
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