Security Incident Response Engineer

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Twitch is looking for a Security Incident Response Engineer to join our SIRT. Reporting to the SIRT Manager, you'll be at the heart of our mission to find, handle, and learn from security incidents across our global platform. We're looking for engineers who thrive coordinating response to emerging issues in informat...

You can work from San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; or Seattle, WA.

Twitch is looking for a Security Incident Response Engineer to join our SIRT. Reporting to the SIRT Manager, you'll be at the heart of our mission to find, handle, and learn from security incidents across our global platform. We're looking for engineers who thrive coordinating response to emerging issues in information security who are ready to level up our defense. If you're passionate about protecting the Twitch community and solving complex security puzzles, we want to hear from you!
Participate in an on-call rotation that includes your peers on the Security Incident Response Team
Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what a security incident is
Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures
Participate or create information sharing groups; communicate securely and responsibly
Write and follow clear procedures so that our work can be accountable, repeated, measured, and improved
Communicate with peers and leadership about timeline of a security related event with what potential and realized impact, how we discovered it, and how we're handling it
Coordinate security incident response activities with affected teams to do the right thing for our customers and our organization
Investigate, document, and implement agentic detection, enrichment, triage, response, and communication automations in every day processes
Lead lessons learned  discussions and help teams effect change across the business that reduces incident recurrence

3+ years relevant experience doing information security work or equivalent BS degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related fields
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 like NIST-800-61, ISO/IEC 27035, etc.
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Security, or a related technical discipline
Experience and familiarity with streaming and content creation
Experience handling security incidents in hybrid cloud environment (AWS, GCP) and conducting log dives on cloud telemetry like CloudTrail
Passion and excitement for Twitch