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Staff Security Engineer

AI summary of the role

Staff-level security engineer on Twilio's Threat Detection and Response team, focused on building AI-driven threat hunting and detection tooling, automating incident response, and defending against AI-specific threats.

What you’ll do

  • Architect and develop detective tooling and automation for threat detection and incident response
  • Participate in on-call rotation, threat modeling, and incident response activities
  • Align Detection and Response vision and strategy, shipping multi-year roadmaps and programs
  • Perform security research and architecture reviews to understand and defend the Twilio platform

What you’ll bring

  • 3+ years of security engineering in a production-cloud environment
  • Experience designing and building AI Agents and Agentic workflows
  • Ability to use AI for complex threat hunting and high-fidelity detections
  • Experience detecting AI threats using MITRE ATLAS or similar frameworks

Technologies

AI Agents · Agentic workflows · MITRE ATLAS · SIEM · SOAR · Terraform · CloudFormation · AWS · GCP · threat hunting

About Twilio

Programmable communications APIs (SMS, voice, email, WhatsApp) plus a customer data platform, used by developers to build messaging, contact centers, and now AI voice agents.

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Source and classification

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person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Staff AI Security Engineer, Threat Hunting About the job The Threat Detection and Response team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer who is passionate about solving the business’s toughest technical-security challenges; you will work within a Security Engineering team that partners with R&D Engineering and R&D Business teams to develop scalable processes and technical solutions. You will be a valued member of a team of deeply technical Security Engineers to focus on creating bespoke and standard Security tooling, enhancing our capabilities for threat mitigation and incident response, and then automating as much as you possibly can (and more)! You will help us to grow our global, scaled team and program. Responsibilities In this
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