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Security Engineer, Paranoids
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Yahoo is a guide focused on making users' daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses.
A Little About Us
When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries in all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and keep Yahoo one of the safest places on the Internet.
The Paranoids Monitoring team is responsible for creating tools and systems to help spot nefarious activity on Yahoo’s infrastructure, network, and nodes. We focus on large scale solutions for complex corporate and production environments. If you have a passion for identifying patterns, outliers and anomalies in huge volumes of security data, we would love to talk to you!
A Lot About You
The Paranoids seek a security engineer who will defend Yahoo Infrastructure/data and drive innovative solutions to global and large scale security challenges.The exact tasks will depend on your profile.
Your Day
• Turn research into production quality detection models/systems.
• Design, develop, and implement systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Work closely with Incident Response, Security Operations, Infrastructue Security and other Yahoo teams on delivery of low false positive security signals.
• Devise new and innovative ways to analyze huge amounts of security data to nefarious activity
• Application of strong analytical skills to solve large-scale problems
• Research in existing data corpus to detect new patterns
You Must Have
• BS in CS or 2+ years equivalent industry experience is required. MS in CS or equivalent experience preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of security sensors: IDS, VPN, syslog, authentication systems...
• Understanding of: distributed systems, cloud computing, database, machine learning, data mining, statistics, data modelling
• Software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration (Git/SVN), continuous deployment (Travis/Jenkins), and deployment orchestration (Chef, puppet, or equivalent)
• Experience with C, C++, Java, Ruby, or Python
• Experience with Intrusion Detection software, both open-source and commercial preferred (SourceFire, Bro IDS, Suricata, Snort, etc)
• Experience with network protocols and deep packet inspection
• Experience with Web Technologies (Apache, AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, SOAP, XML)
• Experience with scikit, R, Splunk
• Understanding of large-scale data processing technologies (SQL, Hadoop)