Staff Security Engineer (Threat Hunting)

Twilio as a Staff AI Security Engineer, focusing on threat hunting and incident response. You will work within a Security Engineering team, collaborating with R&D Engineering and R&D Business teams to develop scalable processes and technical solutions.

About Twilio

If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Responsibilities

• Your responsibilities will include daily operations tasks, aligning the Detection and Response vision and strategy, understanding customer challenges, prioritizing areas for improvement, performing technology and security research, building systems to simplify complex security problems, empowering others, and providing mentorship and support to the team.
• Participate in daily operations tasks including, on-call rotation, architecting and developing well-engineered and performant detective tooling and automation.
• Work with the team to align the Detection and Response vision and strategy, while engaging the team to develop and ship specific, multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects.
• Proactively identify areas that would most benefit the improvement of our business, inclusive of the Incident Response program and with consideration of company/organizational objectives.
• Experience with SIEM platforms and the ability to extend their functionality
• Subject-matter expert on security issues and technologies
• Experience designing and building AI Agents and Agentic workflows

Requirements

• Experience detecting and responding to next generation, Artificial Intelligence threats following MITRE ATLAS or similar framework
• Experience in either AWS, GCP, or other large cloud platform
• Advanced knowledge of service-oriented architectures, as well as experience with security tools and technologies fit for a cloud environment
• Experience with SOAR tools and automating manual security processes
• 3+ years of security engineering experience in a production-cloud environment
• Experience working across a technology stack on difficult security challenges and initiatives
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with every level of the organization

Preferred

• Ability to utilize AI for comprehensive, complex threat hunting delivering high fidelity detections
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Cloudformation

Pay

USD 155,520 - 228,700