Security Incident Response Engineer

Twitch is seeking a Security Incident Response Engineer to join its Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). As a Security Incident Response Engineer, you will be at the heart of Twitch's mission to identify, respond to, and learn from security incidents across its global platform.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in an on-call rotation with the Security Incident Response Team
• Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using established guidelines
• Evaluate the potential and realised impact of security incidents on Twitch
• Analyse threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Participate in or create information sharing groups and communicate securely and responsibly
• Develop and follow clear procedures for accountability, repeatability, measurement, and improvement
• Communicate with peers and leadership about security-related events, their impact, and response
• Coordinate security incident response activities with affected teams
• Investigate, document, and implement automation for detection, enrichment, triage, response, and communication
• Lead lessons learned discussions and help teams implement changes to reduce incident recurrence

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in information security or equivalent
• Experience with automation using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Shell, or Perl)
• Ability to design and implement AI/ML-driven playbooks for automation
• Experience coordinating responses to security incidents
• Knowledge of security issues and the threat landscape
• Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
• Familiarity with Incident Response frameworks or lifecycle models

Nice to Have:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Security, or a related technical discipline
• Experience with streaming and content creation
• Experience handling security incidents in hybrid cloud environments (AWS, GCP)
• Familiarity with log analysis on cloud telemetry like CloudTrail

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount