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Senior Detection Engineer
| Company | The Trade Desk |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $102400 – $187700 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent years of experience required.
- 5+ years of experience in a dedicated cybersecurity role, or a combination of equivalent information technology experience, training, and education.
- Experience working with telemetry from a wide variety of sources including Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Data Loss Prevention (DLP), SaaS applications, databases, identity providers, and cloud platforms.
- Proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language.
- Experience building threat detections for large cloud infrastructures and workloads running in Kubernetes.
- Experience with at least one major public cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with SIEM, logging, and query development in the security context.
- Experience working with code to automate redundant tasks and integrating with new tools and technology relatively quickly.
- The ability to relay the same information to a developer, accountant, and executive in a tailored fashion.
- Experience working across differing but complimentary disciplines such as IT, Network, Database, Engineering/Dev, Product Security, Compliance, etc.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Incident Response, Engineering, and Product Management teams to engineer new detections and high-quality alerting mechanisms to improve response and adapt to the ever-evolving threat landscape.
- Build and maintain a detection and response pipeline including log collection, data processing and ingestion, detection content development, and alert/case management.
- Consume security assessments produced by Infrastructure Security and Application Security and develop detections for identified abuse-cases.
- Develop automations to enrich and respond to security alerts.
- Identify, prioritize, and remediate logging and visibility gaps.
- Identify trends and build observability into areas that need it.
- Consult on technology initiatives to provide industry best-practice as a baseline for security observability and detections.
- Support our internal customers through world-class communication and customer service.
- Proactively improve our security frameworks, documentation, tools, processes, and methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
