[Hiring] Staff Security Engineer @Twilio

Role Description

The Threat Detection and Response team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer who is passionate about solving the business’s toughest technical-security challenges. You will work within a Security Engineering team that partners with R&D Engineering and R&D Business teams to develop scalable processes and technical solutions.

• Participate in daily operations tasks including on-call rotation, architecting and developing well-engineered and performant detective tooling and automation, participating in applications/systems threat modeling, and participating in Incident Response activities.
• 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, ensuring prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment.
• Work cross-collaboratively to understand and help solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of threat actors and activity.
• 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.
• Challenge the status quo; perform technology research, security research, and architecture reviews needed for a thorough understanding of the Twilio platform to understand what we are defending and how best to defend it.
• Build systems and services to make the most complex security problems simple and frictionless.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team’s work.
• Provide mentorship, support, and care for the team in a way that enables long-term career development, happiness, and success at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven experience: 3+ years of security engineering in a production-cloud environment.
• Subject-matter expert on security issues and technologies.
• Experience designing and building AI Agents and Agentic workflows.
• Ability to utilize AI for comprehensive, complex threat hunting activities delivering high fidelity detections.
• Experience detecting and responding to next generation, Artificial Intelligence threats following MITRE ATLAS or similar framework.
• Advanced knowledge of service-oriented architectures, as well as experience with security tools and technologies fit for a cloud environment.
• Experience working across a technology stack on difficult security challenges and initiatives.
• Experience with SIEM platforms and the ability to extend their functionality.
• Experience with SOAR tools and automating manual security processes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Cloudformation.
• Experience in either AWS, GCP, or other large cloud platform.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with every level of the organization.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Generous time off.
• Ample parental and wellness leave.
• Healthcare.
• Retirement savings program.
• Participation in Twilio’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan.