Security Engineer - Detection & Response

Details

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. Employees are expected to be hands-on, show initiative, and have strong communication and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day security threat management and support threat intelligence, threat hunting, intrusion detection, and incident response efforts.
• Identify and manage potential incidents and work with partner teams on known or suspected security threats.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation performing security incident response and commandeer security incidents while updating stakeholders.
• Identify, design, and lead threat hunting missions to quantify and reduce threats.
• Research and analyze patterns in security events across xAI’s global infrastructure.
• Identify and develop new detection use cases and optimize existing detections.
• Manage and support log collection, security scanning, intrusion detection, and other security-related systems.
• Design and assist in the development of automation to reduce false positives and handle events automatically.
• Analyze the security posture of systems via testing and vulnerability impact analysis.
• Drive continual improvement in processes, procedures, and automations to improve team quality and effectiveness.

Requirements (Basic Qualifications)

• 2+ years of relevant information security experience.
• Self-starter capable of executing tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strong Python scripting skills for implementing security automation.
• Knowledge of networking and macOS, Windows, or Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals and practices (vendor agnostic).
• Experience managing and/or deploying security technology.
• Experience building queries and dashboards for security monitoring.
• Knowledge of current threats and techniques and a desire to research and learn more.
• Experience with malware analysis, forensics, or penetration testing.
• Problem solving skills and experience with troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Certifications like CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, Security+, CASP+, or similar preferred.
• Experience with Elastic / OpenSearch or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with open source security automation tooling.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD.
• Total rewards package also includes equity, medical/vision/dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and other discounts and perks.

Other

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