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Staff Security Engineer, Threat Hunting

Twilio· Security
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Remote$0Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff-level security engineering role focused on threat hunting, detection, response, and automation within Twilio’s Threat Detection and Response team. Remote-first, with potential ad‑hoc in-person participation.

Responsibilities

  • Be an Owner: participate in daily operations tasks including on-call rotation, architecting and developing detective tooling and automation, threat modeling, and Incident Response activities
  • Write It Down: align Detection and Response vision and strategy, develop multi-year roadmaps, programs, and projects with prioritization and timely delivery
  • Wear the customer’s shoes: collaborate to understand and solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of threat actors and activity
  • Ruthlessly Prioritize: identify areas benefiting IR program and organizational objectives
  • Don’t Settle: conduct technology and security research and architecture reviews to understandTwilio platform
  • Draw the Owl: build systems/services to simplify complex security problems
  • Empower Others: mentor and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to maximize impact
  • Be Inclusive: support career development and team happiness 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 AI threats following MITRE ATLAS or similar framework
  • Advanced knowledge of service-oriented architectures, and security tools/technologies for cloud environments
  • Experience across technology stack on challenging security initiatives
  • Experience with SIEM platforms and extending their functionality
  • Experience with SOAR tools and automating security processes
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • Experience in AWS, GCP, or other large cloud platforms
  • Desired: Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to influence across organization
  • BS in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience

Skills

Required:On-call and incident responseThreat modelingAI-powered threat huntingSecurity tooling and automationSIEMSOARInfrastructure as codeCloud platforms

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Generous time off
  • Parental and wellness leave
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement savings program
  • Location-based offerings
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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