Security Engineer, Airbnb
Threat Detection & Response
$162-186k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
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$162-186k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of hands-on in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations including investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering
- Proficiency in Python or other scripting language. We also use SQL and Pandas frequently
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred
- Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance
- Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence and not authority
- Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical high-stress situations with expediency
- Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Knowledge and familiarity of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework and how these apply to the threat landscape
- Experience automating security detection and response
- Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred
- We are not focused on specific tools but we often use Python, AWS, SQL, and more
What the job involves
- The Threat Detection and Response team (TDR) at Airbnb is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and working with partner teams to build capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. This is the front-line team that detects, investigates, and responds to internal & external security threats and malicious activity
- This is a key role to help execute our vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities and process. As an engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, and growing securing capabilities as you help deliver world-class threat detection and incident response
- You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team
- You will get an opportunity to execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents
- You will partner with cross-functional partners across the company to improve the overall security of Airbnb driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents resulting in removal of entire classes of problems
- Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics
- Use your 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 to mitigate threats at scale
- Hunt for threats in our corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity
- Work side by side with our engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions to help keep systems and information safe, and partner closely with partner teams to carry out complex investigations
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection
- Collaborate well with cross-functional partner teams, such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale response
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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