23andMe offers DNA testing with the most comprehensive ancestry breakdown, personalized health insights and more. Backed by NEA, GV and Sapphire.
About the role
23andMe Research Institute is looking for an experienced Security Operations Engineer to join our Security Operations team. In this role you will lead security incident response as Incident Commander, triage and investigate alerts, and build the detection and automation architecture to help protect our customer and corporate data. You will bring critical thinking skills, hands-on experience, and the ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams.
What they're looking for
- Design, build, and tune threat detections, and measure and improve their fidelity over time
- Operate and extend our detections-as-code pipeline, from detection logic through testing and deployment, utilizing Terraform
- Triage, investigate, and prioritize security alerts across endpoint, identity, cloud, and application telemetry, separating true events from background noise
- Conduct proactive threat hunting informed by current attacker tradecraft
- Identify automation opportunities and build integrations that reduce manual response effort
- Serve as Incident Commander on a shared rotation, coordinating response across Engineering, IT, Legal, and Privacy for the duration of an incident
More about this role
23andMe Research Institute is looking for an experienced Security Operations Engineer to join our Security Operations team. In this role you will lead security incident response as Incident Commander, triage and investigate alerts, and build the detection and automation architecture to help protect our customer and corporate data. You will bring critical thinking skills, hands-on experience, and the ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams.
Since 2006, 23andMe Research Institute’s mission has been to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome. We are a group of passionate individuals pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to help turn genetic insight into better health and personal understanding.
Detection engineering and investigation
- Design, build, and tune threat detections, and measure and improve their fidelity over time.
- Operate and extend our detections-as-code pipeline, from detection logic through testing and deployment, utilizing Terraform.
- Triage, investigate, and prioritize security alerts across endpoint, identity, cloud, and application telemetry, separating true events from background noise .
- Conduct proactive...
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