{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d4ea13ba616005dd468e4b83","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d4ea13ba616005dd468e4b83","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d4ea13ba616005dd468e4b83","title":"Security Engineer","description":"Company Description\n\nDropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today.\n\nWouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots.\n\nThe nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history.\n\nDropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.\n\nTeam Description\n\nOur Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.\n\nRole Description\n\nThe 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!\n\nWe 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!\n\nMany 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.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nDevelop, apply, and refine detection and incident response playbooks\nPerform on-call duties triaging detection and incident response events\nAnalyze and correlate data from disparate sources\nImprove detection workflows with automation and alert enrichments\nWrite detection rules to identify threats specific to our environment\nShare knowledge and experience with peer teams and DART engineers\n\nRequirements\n\nDirect experience with operational teamwork or as a security incident first responder\nExperience improving operational teams capabilities/KPIs\nExperience influencing strategy and/or changes across org and partner teams\nKnowledge of operating systems, file systems, or memory on macOS, Linux, Windows, or iOS/Android.\nPractical experience with attacker tactics, techniques and procedures\nExperience 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.\nExperience 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\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nBS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience\n4+ years experience as a security engineer in related domains\nCoding or scripting proficiency in one or more languages\nExperience writing and reading Structured Query Language (SQL)\n\nMany 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.\n\nTotal Rewards\n\nOur Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here .\n\nDropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.\n\nDropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations. However, for this role, the locations posted are preferred.\n\nSalary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).\n\nCurrent Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):\n\nUS Zone 1: $170,000 - $200,000 - $230,000.\nUS Zone 2: $153,000 - $180,000 - $207,000.\nUS Zone 3: $136,000 - $160,000 - $184,000.\nDropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:\n\nUS Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro\nUS Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro and West Virginia (DC metro)\nUS Zone 3: All other US locations\nBenefits\n\nDropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:\n\nCompetitive medical, dental and vision coverage\n\n(US Only) Competitive 401(k) Plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting\n\nFlexible Time Off/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer time off and more\n\nProtection Plans including; Life Insurance, Disability Insurance and Travel benefit plans\n\nPerks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more\n\nParental benefits including; Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA (US Only), Fertility Benefits (US Only), Adoption and Surrogacy support and Lactation Support\n\nMental Health and Wellness benefits Free Dropbox space for your friends and family\n\nAdditional benefits details are available upon request.\n\nDropbox is an equal opportunity employer. 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