Security Engineer

About the role

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

Snap Security teams protect the trust and safety of our global community by securing the systems and data that power Snapchat. We safeguard hundreds of millions of Snapchatters every day, ensuring that every product and service is built on a foundation of security and resilience. Our values guide everything we do - from how we anticipate and mitigate threats to how we collaborate across Snap. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

Join Snap Inc.'s Detection and Response (D&R) team as a Security Engineer. In this role, you will be at the forefront of engineering innovative security solutions, building and deploying robust systems to protect our digital infrastructure and investigating any suspicious activity on our networks as an incident responder. You'll work from our Sydney office in collaboration with global teams in the US and Switzerland, embracing an engineering mindset to effectively identify and neutralise threats across our production environments, corporate infrastructure, and internal tools.

This is not your typical IR or analyst role, we spend large percentages of our time on project work, balancing this with our operational duties such as detection engineering and incident response. If you're ready to make a tangible impact and drive innovative security projects, apply now to join our global team and help shape the future of security at Snap Inc.

​​Key Responsibilities:

- Build, deploy and maintain large scale security systems across our ecosystem.

- Research, innovate and improve our security capabilities through new and enhanced tooling.

- Develop smart automation strategies to reduce the need for manual alert triage.

- Conduct detection engineering to increase coverage, identifying malicious activities across Snap Inc.'s endpoints, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments.

- Investigate alerts and potential incidents end-to-end, including digital forensics, malware analysis and threat intelligence as needed.

- Lead incident response efforts and respond to intrusion attempts and suspicious activities, collaborating with multiple Snap Inc. teams.

- Participate in red team exercises and threat simulations in order to identify gaps, improve competencies and expand the team’s knowledge.

​​Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.