Staff Security Engineer

WHAT IS BOX? 

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

The Threat Operations team is looking for a Staff Security Engineer with technical skills to identify and analyze advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The Staff Security Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for hunting and creating, testing, and tuning automated detections. This role will collaborate with other teams within Security Operations, IT, and Engineering to identify and remediate detection and logging gaps. The Security Engineer will also work with the Threat Intelligence Team to assess and prioritize behaviors to hunt and build detections as part of the Threat Informed Defense strategy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

• Build, test and deploy detection analytics based on research of novel attack techniques and real world threats to Box.

• Work closely with our Incident Response Teams to improve the fidelity, context and automation of new and existing alerting.

• Identify and assist service owners with logging configuration to eliminate gaps in logging visibility.

• Work closely with our Red Team to identify and develop solutions for gaps in detection coverage.

• Participate in Purple Team exercises to improve and validate detections.

• Work closely with our Intelligence Team to focus detection efforts on prioritized threat behaviors.

• Participate in after hours on-call rotation when required

WHO YOU ARE 

• A Bachelors degree in computer science, cybersecurity, mathematics, data science or related fields, or equivalent work experience.

• 8+ years of experience in a security operations role (incident response, threat detection, threat hunting). 

• You are comfortable (and enjoy!) searching through TB's of data in a SIEM to find interesting patterns (i.e. Splunk, ELK, etc.).

• You are familiar with Splunk Processing Language (SPL) or SQL and want to become a power user.

• You have worked as an incident responder or have partnered closely with an incident response team.

• You are comfortable writing small scripts in python or similar scripting languages.

• You have an understanding of how attackers leverage commonly used MITRE ATT&CK techniques and common ways to detect them.

• You have experience using and reviewing logs from various Operating Systems (MacOS, Linux, Windows) and cloud infrastructures (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc).

Box lives its values, with community and in-person collaboration being a core part of our culture. Boxers are expected to work from their assigned office a minimum of 2 days per week, with a focus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Your Recruiter will share more about how we work and company culture during the hiring process.

Head-over-heels about this role — but not sure you meet all the requirements? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Box, we take a big-picture approach to hiring that fosters authenticity, diversity, and inclusion. If you're passionate about this opportunity, chances are, you shine pretty bright.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.

Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.

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