✨ About The Role
- The role involves developing, enhancing, and implementing threat detections, automating security controls, and monitoring security events at scale
- Responsibilities include analyzing security events, leading incident response activities, and supporting security initiatives across the organization
- The position requires collaborating with various teams to onboard new data sources and optimize processes to strengthen Reddit's security and privacy mission
- The job offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to the creation of new detections during the migration to custom tooling
- The role also involves partnering with teams to build a scalable detection and incident response system to analyze security events and anomalies across Reddit's technical ecosystem
âš¡ Requirements
- Experienced security software engineer with a strong coding background in Go, Python, and shell scripts, and knowledge of Splunk, SQL, and BigQuery
- Skilled in threat detections, incident response, and insider threat programs, with at least 3+ years of experience in security engineering
- Comfortable working with cloud tools like Terraform, Ansible, and associated concepts
- Effective communicator able to explain complex security topics to business representatives in a clear and concise manner
- Self-motivated individual with a passion for data, security, and building creative mitigations