Security Engineer, Detection & Response Team

Role Description

The Detection and Response Team (DART) is looking for a Security Engineer with experience performing detection incident response security engineering and maintaining operationally excellent systems. You will operate and build the tools and detections to catch the next incident contain it and keep Dropbox worthy of trust!

We are a multi-disciplinary team with a wide variety of skills and responsibilities including Linux macOS and Windows systems security cloud and network security and detection and response capabilities. Within our team are many opportunities to apply your prior experience and vision to improve Dropbox’s detection and response program!

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Responsibilities

• Develop apply and refine detection and incident response playbooks

• Perform on-call duties triaging detection and incident response events

• Analyze and correlate data from disparate sources

• Improve detection workflows with automation and alert enrichments

• Write detection rules to identify threats specific to our environment

• Share knowledge and experience with peer teams and DART engineers

Requirements

• Direct experience with operational teamwork or as a security incident first responder

• Experience improving operational teams capabilities/KPIs

• Experience influencing strategy and/or changes across org and partner teams

• Knowledge of operating systems file systems or memory on macOS Linux Windows or iOS/Android.

• Practical experience with attacker tactics techniques and procedures

• Experience and knowledge across multiple security domains but with expertise in two or more of the following domains: detection engineering digital forensics incident response threat hunting threat intelligence threat hunting or malware analysis.

• Experience performing Live response or digital forensics using disk and memory forensic artefacts on operating systems such as Windows *nix (macOS Linux) ChromeOS Android iOS etc

Preferred Qualifications

• BS (or higher e.g. MS or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience

• 4+ years experience as a security engineer in related domains

• Coding or scripting proficiency in one or more languages

• Experience writing and reading Structured Query Language (SQL)

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox BlackDropboxers Latinx Pridebox (LGBTQ) Vets at Dropbox Women at Dropbox ATX Diversity (based in Austin Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin Ireland).