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Paranoids Detection Engineering Senior Manager

Yahoo · United States of America · On-site

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About the role

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Consulting on and supporting cybersecurity investigations as a leader of the Threat Detection and Response Action Group.

What they're looking for

  • Protecting employees and users, and making the Internet a safer place for everyone
  • Leading and supporting a team of creative detection engineers
  • Collaboratively working with other security leaders
  • Thinking outside the box
  • Relentlessly identifying and stopping bad actors
  • Demonstrating deep curiosity and staying ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape
More about this role

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries of all types within all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Yahoo one of the safest places on the Internet.

We are the information security team at Yahoo; known as "The Paranoids".

As a part of the Paranoids Detection Engineering Team, we protect Yahoo, its brands, and their users. We ensure that our users are kept safe from targeted attacks and account hijacking by government backed attackers. We investigate cyber threats which affect Yahoo's infrastructure, properties, and worldwide user base and apply innovative legal and technical remedies to mitigate those activities.

A Lot About You

We are seeking a dynamic Detection Engineering Sr. Manager to join our Threat Detection and Response team. Our ideal...

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