Who We Are: 

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

You will be responsible for helping to provide security protections and monitoring for sensitive data in any format or location. You will help identify, review and respond to a wide array of events generated by data protection technology, insider risk and system abuse detections. You will design, advocate, and help build security data protection technology addressing internal and external threat concerns. 

As an Senior Security Engineer, you will perform these key tasks:

• Design and implement capabilities for monitoring, observability and detecting irregular and/or abnormal data protection technology suite.

• Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle, to include understanding functional requirements, design, & scalability through implementation and testing

• Aggregate, analyze, and evaluate technical data sources to identify security risks to data protection 

• Build sustainable processes of identifying signals and building threat models around them to enhance predictive capabilities

• Coordinate with security partners to tune and enhance data loss prevention capabilities or to aid in investigations or respond to incidents

• Provide mentoring and guidance on technical security analytics related matters, methodologies, and techniques both within the team and to external partners

You care about security and building a secure environment for the people using Twitter everyday. You are curious, and have experience with the tools of the trade, comfortable digging into the details, and eager to help others protect our systems. Ideally, you have most of the following:

• 5 or more years of practical industry experience with data protection technologies such as DLP, User Behavior Analytics (UBA), and Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)

• 3 or more years of exposure to search queries for knowledge engineering, data classification, e-discovery and/or digital forensics projects 

• Experience with security events, their reviews and triage in data protection space

• Experience working with cross functional teams to conduct investigations and triage such as Insider Threat, Compliance, Legal and HR 

• Working knowledge of SQL or other relational databases 

• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Python, Scala, or Java

• Good understanding of distributed systems with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

• Excellent written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills

Additional Information: A few other things we value:

We care about making work happy and productive for everyone, with the option to work from home and remotely when you need, wellness benefits, six months of parental leave, and unlimited vacation that we believe you should be taking. 

We love sharing knowledge and ideas. Within our team, we have regular lightning talks. We regularly get together with the other Twitter engineering teams for tech talks. And there are many study groups you can join.

A few other things we value:

• Challenge - We solve some of the industry’s hardest problems. Come to be challenged, learn, and thrive as an engineer.

• Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. 

• Work, Life, Balance - We work hard, but we believe with hard work should come balance.

• Collaboration - There’s that saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” We want to go far.

• Variety - We encourage team rotations that allow you to work with and learn from other teams at Twitter.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Notice (Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act)
The expected salary range for this role to be performed in Colorado is USD$146,000.00 - USD$204,000.00. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for participation in Twitter’s Performance Bonus Plan and Equity Incentive Plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Twitter offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Twitter's benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.