Senior Security Engineer - Detection and Response

The Spotify Security team is looking to advance our threat detection and response capabilities. If identifying threats and adversaries using logs and security telemetry excites you, if threat hunting exercises and building alerts to stay ahead of attackers gets your heart pumping, if you are up for the challenge to manage security incidents and drive enterprise-wide efforts for containment and response, then stop what you’re doing and apply!

• You will work with our IT, infrastructure, and feature teams across Spotify to identify new detection opportunities and build out the signal collection to support it
• You will determine the best solutions for monitoring, processing, and alerting on security-based signals
• You will form repeatable processes for prioritizing and responding to alerts and developing playbooks
• You will mature our capabilities to proactively identify security threats and develop detections
• You will participate in response to incidents to drive containment and remediation to keep Spotify secure
• You will work with security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR and other platforms that we use in our daily operations
• You like crafting repeatable processes, but when you have to do something more than a few times, you automate it!
• You like rapidly prioritizing work based on business needs and assessing risks
• You like working in a flexible environment where you can wear many hats

• You have solid experience in security detection engineering and incident response
• You have a proven understanding of developer concepts and technologies such as Github, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• You have experience automating repetitive tasks using your coding language of choice or an automation platform with applicable syntax
• You have an understanding of the current threat landscape and building detection and response capabilities in SaaS-oriented corp IT environments
• You have experience working in cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure

• For this role you will be based in Stockholm, Sweden, or London, UK.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.