Digital Forensics and Incident Response Lead

About Us

We're looking for a Sr. Security Engineer - DFIR Lead to join our team.

In this role, you will be the lead technical contributor on our Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team, charged with improving the security posture of our organization both reactively and proactively.

• Establish an understanding of our entire production environment, from applications to infrastructure.
• Lead live intrusions and incident response investigations with on-call responsibilities to minimize the impact of malicious actors.
• Collect digital artifacts from cloud, on-premise, and employee systems for analysis to reconstruct what may have occurred on a system leveraging digital forensics methodologies.
• Use advanced network traffic analysis techniques to identify compromised systems, negate denial of service attacks, and pinpoint resource anomalies.
• Identify trends in malicious activity, inform leadership, and perform preventative measures.
• Act as a point of contact for security and related incidents: providing supporting data for critical issues, downtime events, root causes, and post-mortem reports.
• Build tools to identify and automate response to malicious activity with enhancements to refine incident response procedural documentation as needed.
• Build strong relationships with technical teams across all business functions to harden account, platform, and service structures to combat intrusions, compromises, and disruptions.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with staff including legal counsel, trust & governance, and executive leadership.
• Engage in R&D efforts to identify and develop the latest forensic tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Implement technical recommendations that mature incident response and digital forensics capabilities.
• Provide comprehensive feedback and technical advice to juniors and peers to increase team maturity and speed of advancement.

• 8+ years of experience leading live incident response activities transparently, in a fast-paced team environment where accuracy of analysis determines business impact.
• Ability to differentiate between normal and unusual resource usage patterns in customer and employee network/system behaviors in order to hunt for subtle anomalous patterns.
• Hands-on experience with both dead-disk and live digital forensics, especially on Linux or Unix systems using open source tools (e.g., volatility, sleuthkit) in an enterprise production environment at cloud scale.
• Data analysis skills, including familiarity with relational databases, structured query languages, logging infrastructures, and data visualization tools.
• Familiarity with basic static and dynamic malware analysis for triage, identification, prioritization, and remediation of new malware families and behaviors (e.g., x86 assembly, binary analysis).
• A high degree of curiosity and aptitude, with a clear passion for security and the desire to keep our employees, customers, and the internet safe.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to include; technical writing, presenting, coaching, mentoring.
• A proven track record of improving enterprise and operational security as the business scales, driving continuous improvement through data collection, correlation, and control enhancements.
• 5+ years of experience maturing hands-on forensics and incident response protocols.
• Ability to conduct vulnerability analysis, scoping, and mitigation planning for the internal employee environment.
• Ability to perform comprehensive threat intelligence analysis based on proactive hunts with clear and concise dissemination of findings.
• Ability to perform network protocol analysis and design of internal applications to recommend design changes as needed.
• Proven coding skills to develop automations and custom tools reducing time and complexity.

• We offer a competitive array of benefits, including health insurance, additional resources to support employees' overall well-being.
• We value development and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs.
• We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.

• Candidates who are passionate about making the internet a safer place for everyone.
• Candidates with excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing, presenting, coaching, and mentoring.
• Candidates with a high degree of curiosity and aptitude, with a clear passion for security.