Staff Security Engineer

Top Skills' Details

7+ years of experience as an Incident Responder with a proficiency in digital forensic analysis in Mac, Linux, and Windows OS environments

Strong foundational knowledge of information security and common attacks, tactics, techniques, and procedures

Familiarity with operating systems internals, malware functionality, and persistence mechanisms

Hands on experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR and MDM platforms

5+ years scripting in common languages to expedite analysis of large or complex data, and tune or modify existing security tooling

You are are familiar with cloud computing environments (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and/or Azure)

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

• Basic SQL/Python/TypeScript
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform services preferred)

Job Description

About the team:
Etsy is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join our Security Operations team from July 2025 thru February 2026. As part of the larger Security and Privacy Engineering org, this group of teams plays a pivotal role in protecting and responding to threats to our data, applications, systems, and infrastructure. Security Operations is responsible for managing our strategy, technologies, and execution of threat detection, corporate security, threat intelligence, and more.

About the role:

As a senior staff member of the Security Operations team, you will be a hands-on security engineer, automating day-to-day DART tasks, writing new detection logic, leading incidents and contributing to security projects and workstreams. You will collaborate with members of the broader security and engineering organizations to support our security efforts. This role will provide technical mentorship to other individuals and require communications (written and verbal) to a variety of audiences.
This role will participate in an on-call rotation on a minimum of a monthly basis.

What does the day-to-day look like?
Participate in active threat hunting, analysis of security events, and incident triage (as it arises)

End to end security event and/or incident response cycle duties, including but not limited to forensic analysis of full disk images and log data, incident commander duties, and cross-functional collaboration to other business areas

Develop, tune, and manage tools to gather security telemetry data

Automate workflows and improve our detection and response time for security events

Build detection rules and threat hunting queries

Help improve processes, procedures, technologies, and runbooks for detection and response

Support the technical and operational aspects of high-visibility security initiatives

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Nice to haves:

Experience with Google Workspace and/or Google Cloud Platform

Container technology experience

Additional experience in any of the following areas: CTI, penetration testing, network or system engineering.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

Great Opportunity: A chance to work with one of the top E-Commerce companies with a great culture and team.
High flexibility: 100% remote, flexible time zone
PTOs: the client offers PTO to consultants, they accumulate 10 hours a month
Long-term potential: Etsy can extend or convert the consultant after 6 months based on their performance
High Visibility Project: Etsy Ads is one of their most important initiatives and the team working on this

Work Environment

Hands-on Team, Collaborative,

Business Drivers/Customer Impact

Growing revenue through shop experience is one of the main priorities for the company this year. This person will be sitting on the Ads Recommendation Quality team, which handles the personalization & recommendation engine. The goal of this team is to help optimize Etsy's pricing & sales strategy of their Ad spots to different business that are interested in posting their advertisements on the Etsy platforms.

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