Senior Security Engineer, Detection Infrastructure
Company: Asana
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 15, 2022
Job Description:
Asana is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our
Detection and Response team. This role will lead the technical
direction of the developing team, making key investments in systems
and processes for building out our detection program. You will be
helping to build and advise on the systems we employ to generate,
collect, and surface signal to allow for detection of malicious
activity on and directed towards Asana the product and company. The
Detection and Response team is made up of Detection Infrastructure
and Security Response areas. Detection Infrastructure works closely
with the investigators on Security Response to provide tooling and
systems that allows for expedient response and focuses on
automation above manual work.What you ll achieve
- Guide the technical development and execution of Asana s
detection infrastructure area
- Ensure our logging and alerting infrastructure provides
adequate coverage of key areas
- Identify and prioritize data sources necessary for performing
detection, investigation and response
- Evaluate and implement security event monitoring solutions
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and systems to
deliver meaningful data to centralized security event monitoring
solutions
- Develop best practices around data ingestion, normalization and
enrichment to deliver the most high-signal detections to
investigators
- Participate in maturing the incident response and investigative
capabilities of Asana
- Deploy detections, automations, and alerts using modern
software engineering practices (i.e. automated testing/validation,
CI/CD pipelines, detections as code, etc.)About you
- You want to help drive technical direction and execution for a
group of detection engineers as well as work on your own
projects
- You re passionate about doing security detection and response
right - and have the software engineering chops to lead execution
on solutions
- You care about the experience of investigators and response
engineers and desire to reduce alert fatigue early in the
pipeline
- You reject the idea that more alerts equals better visibility,
and develop with intention with an eye towards reducing burnout
across the organizationQualifications
- 3-5 years working in threat detection engineering
- Strong data analysis and data pipeline engineering
experience
- Strong software engineering background
- Experience leading large projects and driving execution of
engineers
- Proficiency working in AWS and with infrastructure as code
- Experience with SIEM and detection tooling (StreamAlert,
Splunk, EDR, IDS, etc)
- Strong working knowledge of modern threats and working
familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK About usAsana
enables around the world to achieve their goals together, from
small projects to strategic initiatives. For the past 5 years,
we've been named a top workplace by , , , , and for our inclusive
culture that drives business results. After spending more than two
years physically distanced, we're safely and mindfully returning to
in-person collaboration, adding more flexibility to our . With
offices all over the world, we are always looking for curious,
collaborative, and mission-driven people to help us enable the
world s teams to work together effortlessly.
Keywords: Asana, San Francisco , Senior Security Engineer, Detection Infrastructure, Engineering , San Francisco, California
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