Lead Email Security Detections Engineer

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

About the Department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare.  Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers.  Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency, which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

About the Role

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more powerful everyday.  To help fulfill this mission, we are seeking a talented Lead Security Detections Engineer to identify, track, and defeat sophisticated email-borne cyber threats.  In this position, you will examine and mitigate threats in realtime, leveraging emerging technologies to build detections that protect millions of people from phishing attacks.  Your efforts will help us in our constant pursuit of reaching far beyond today’s email security market.

As a Lead Security Detections Engineer, your analytical thinking and quick action will be the key to our success. You will identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and ever-evolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base.  You will work in close collaboration with team members to develop new and innovative ways to present and interact with our unique insights.  You will stop the adversary. 

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• At least 5 years experience in one of the following:
  • Analyzing, tracking and defending against phishing attacks
  • Incident detection and response
  • Intrusion analysis
  • Cyber threat hunting
  • Penetration testing
  • Network defense
  • Endpoint forensics
• Experience leading a team and/or several projects
• Working knowledge of email authentication protocols, and experience in email header analysis
• Experience in rule configuration and using a comprehensive data analysis platform
• Experience with detection development using YARA
• Working knowledge of OSI Layers, DNS, SMTP/SMTPS, TCP/UDP, HTTP/HTTPS 
• Familiarity with regular expressions and their practical application in tracking malicious activity
• Working knowledge of SQL and devising SQL queries
• Ability to understand the latest security trends as they relate to email-borne threats
• A passion for analyzing attacker TTPs at varying levels 
• Familiarity with the cyber threat landscape, cyber intelligence, and working knowledge of threat actors and their techniques
• Experience tracking and analyzing cyber campaigns utilizing technical Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
• Ability to synthesize technical information and document it in a non-technical manner through both graphical and verbal representation
• Capable and comfortable communicating actionable threat intelligence to both technical and executive-level stakeholders
• Great oral and written communications skills
• One of the following:
  • BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Security, Information Systems or related discipline, OR
  • Military or industry training and experience in cyber intelligence, general intelligence studies, security studies, or related discipline
• Desire to learn and impr