# Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection & Response

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £96,000-£120,000 GBP
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

The Threat Detection and Response team at Airbnb is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help define and execute the company's vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities.

As a senior engineer on the team, you will have a direct impact on building, optimizing, and growing security capabilities, as well as mentoring other team members.

Responsibilities:

- Perform investigations of security incidents using digital forensics and data analytics.

- Use coding, data analytics, and investigation skills to hunt, detect, and respond to threats.

- Build automation and detection models to support identification of anomalous activity and response activities.

- Hunt for threats in corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity.

- Work with engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions.

- Partner with cross-functional teams to carry out complex investigations.

- Identify gaps in infrastructure and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, including investigations, incident response, and threat intelligence.

- Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages, SQL, and Pandas.

- Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.

- Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) is preferred.

- Knowledge of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: £96,000-£120,000 GBP per year.

- Opportunities for career growth and professional development.

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible and providing a disability-inclusive application and interview process.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Pandas
- digital forensics
- data analytics
- threat intelligence
- incident response

### Nice to have
- Elasticsearch
- AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS)

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