Twilio
Staff Security Engineer, Threat Hunting
$156K–$229K
Remote - US · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of security engineering in a production-cloud environment.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and improve threat detection, hunting, incident response, and security automation across Twilio’s cloud environment.
What you'll do
- Develop detective tooling and automation; participate in threat modeling, on-call operations, and incident response.
- Help set detection and response strategy and deliver roadmaps, programs, and projects.
- Research threats and security architecture, and build systems that address complex security challenges.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of security engineering in a production-cloud environment.
- Experience designing and building AI Agents and Agentic workflows, and using AI for complex threat hunting and high-fidelity detections.
- Experience detecting and responding to AI threats using MITRE ATLAS or a similar framework.
- Advanced knowledge of service-oriented architectures; experience with SIEM, SOAR, infrastructure as code, and a major cloud platform.
Nice to have
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence and build effective working relationships.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
Pay
$155,520.00 - $194,400.00 USD (base salary); $164,640.00 - $205,800.00 USD (base salary); $182,960.00 - $228,700.00 USD (base salary)
Tools
MITRE ATLAS, SIEM, SOAR, Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Design and build AI Agents and Agentic workflows; use AI for complex threat hunting and high-fidelity detections; detect and respond to AI threats using MITRE ATLAS or a similar framework.
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