Staff Security Engineer I, Security Operations

About the role

Etsy is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join our Security Operations team. This role plays a pivotal role in protecting and responding to threats to our data, applications, systems, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Participate in our detection and response workstreams, writing new detection logic, leading incidents, and communicating to leadership
• Strengthen our detection and response processes, then lead workstreams to automate them with AI where it multiplies impact
• Collaborate with members of the broader security and engineering organizations to support multiple security efforts
• Raise the technical bar of the team: mentoring engineers on incident leadership, detection engineering, security fundamentals, and communications (written and verbal) to a variety of audiences
• Participate in an on-call rotation on a minimum of a monthly basis

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in a security role with significant incident response experience
• Proficiency in web applications and cloud technologies
• Strong foundational knowledge of information security and common attacks, tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Familiarity with operating systems internals, malware functionality, and persistence mechanisms
• Hands on experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR and MDM platforms
• 5+ years of professional development experience, delivering large engineering projects
• Strong mental threat model for web applications and cloud data flows

Qualifications

• Experience building, tuning, and validating AI agents, including running them alongside manual analysis until you trust the output
• Bias toward building and improving systems

Skills

• Experience with Google Workspace and/or GCP
• Container technology experience
• Additional experience in any of the following areas: CTI, penetration testing, network or system engineering

Benefits

In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.

Pay

Salary Range $204,000.00 - $240,000.00

Schedule

This is a full-time position reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager, Security Operations.