# Detection & Mitigation Engineer

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

Cloudflare is seeking a talented Security Detections Engineer to identify, track, and defeat sophisticated threats and abuse across our platform. In this position, you will examine and mitigate threats in real-time, leveraging emerging technologies to build detections that protect millions of people from various forms of attacks and abuse.

## Responsibilities

- Identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and ever-evolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base.

- Work in close collaboration with team members to develop new and innovative ways to present and interact with our unique insights.

- Stop the adversary.

## Requirements

- Experience in one of the following: Data analysis, Metadata analysis, or Network Traffic analysis.

- A passion for analyzing attacker TTPs at varying levels.

- Ability to understand the latest security trends as they relate to platform threats and abuse.

- Experience using a comprehensive data analysis platform and rule configuration.

- Understanding of the cyber threat landscape, cyber intelligence, and working knowledge of threat actors and their techniques.

- Experience tracking and analyzing cyber campaigns utilizing technical Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).

- Working knowledge of SQL and devising SQL queries.

- Python or other scripting experience.

- Ability to synthesize technical information and document it in a non-technical manner through both graphical and verbal representation.

- Capable and comfortable communicating actionable threat intelligence to both technical and executive-level stakeholders.

## What Makes Cloudflare Special?

- Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work.

- Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free.

- 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.

## Skills

### Required
- Data analysis
- Metadata analysis
- Network Traffic analysis
- Threat intelligence
- SQL
- Python
- Scripting
- Cyber threat landscape
- Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

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