Detection & Mitigation Engineer

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.