Lead Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Snap Inc.

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Santa Monica, CA Posted today

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About Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.

Snap Inc. currently has 55 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Lead Security Engineer at Snap, you will join the Detection & Response team to drive high-impact initiatives across various environments including endpoint, cloud, and network. Your responsibilities include leading complex investigations, enhancing detection coverage for critical systems, designing alerting and triage systems, and building automation for threat hunting and incident response. You will also mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce security risks. Ideal candidates have over six years of relevant experience in areas such as detection and response, strong coding skills in Python or Go, and deep knowledge of at least two major operating systems or cloud platforms like macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP. Experience with Google Cloud, SIEM tools, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and security analytics is a plus.

What you'll do

  • Lead complex detection engineering initiatives across multiple environments.
  • Improve detection coverage for high-risk systems and behaviors.
  • Design and enhance logging, alerting, triage, and response systems.
  • Build automation tools for threat hunting and incident response.
  • Mentor engineers to raise the quality of security practices and tooling.

What we're looking for

  • At least 6 years of relevant security experience or equivalent education and experience.
  • Experience in detection and response, incident handling, threat hunting, forensics, malware analysis, or security engineering.
  • Proficient coding skills in Python, Go, or similar programming languages.
  • Deep knowledge of at least two major systems: macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP.
  • Proven leadership in complex security engineering and response projects.
  • Strong decision-making abilities, clear communication, and cross-team influence.

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