About the role
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join
- The Threat Detection and Response team (TDR) at Airbnb is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and working with partner teams to build capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. This is the front-line team that detects, investigates, and responds to internal & external security threats and malicious activity.
- This is a key role to help define and execute our vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities and process while mentoring other team members. As a senior engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, and growing securing capabilities as you help deliver world-class threat detection and incident response.
The Difference You Will Make
- You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team.
- You will get an opportunity to define and execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents.
- You will partner with cross-functional partners across the company to improve the overall security of Airbnb driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents resulting in removal of entire classes of problems.
A Typical Day
- Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics.
- Use your coding, data analytics and investigation skills to hunt, detect and respond to threats.
- Build automation and detection models to support identification of anomalous activity and response activities to mitigate threats at scale.
- Hunt for threats in our corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity.
- Work side by side with our engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions to help keep systems and information safe, and partner closely with partner teams to carry out complex investigations.
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection.