Staff Security Engineer
Mozilla is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join its Incident Response team, dedicated to monitoring and mitigating attacks across Mozilla’s products and services. This role is integral to maintaining the integrity of Mozilla's offerings and ensuring user safety within a company committed to building a more secure internet.
The Staff Security Engineer will identify and respond to security incidents on a global scale, acting as an incident commander to drive incidents through the entire response lifecycle. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining security alerts, automated actions, playbooks, and escalation workflows to support a high-performing 24/7 incident response capability. The role also involves conducting threat hunting activities, researching threat intelligence reports, and partnering with key stakeholders to maintain a continuously improving feedback loop of preparation, identification, analysis, containment, and post-mortem activities.
Candidates should have over 5 years of experience managing security incidents at a global scale and/or working in Security Operations Centers (SOC), Product Security Incident Response Teams (PSIRT), or Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT). Expertise with security information and event management (SIEM) systems, such as ELK, Google BigQuery, or Splunk, is required, with a preference for Splunk proficiency. Experience with integrating and leveraging threat intelligence for detection engineering, as well as with security orchestration and automation (SOAR) platforms like Tines or Splunk SOAR, is also essential. Strong communication and leadership skills are necessary to effectively partner with diverse company stakeholders. Practical experience with cloud technologies, including Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Heroku, or Microsoft Azure, is beneficial.
Mozilla offers generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees, rich medical, dental, and vision coverage, and generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting. Additional benefits include quarterly all-company wellness days, country-specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday, a one-time home office stipend, an annual professional development budget, a quarterly well-being stipend, considerable paid parental leave, and an employee referral bonus program.
Joining Mozilla means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The company encourages applications from all equity-seeking communities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Mozilla is an that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any protected characteristics.