Security Engineer, Threat Response

What you’ll achieve:

• Lead security incident detection, analysis, and response efforts, ensuring timely and effective remediation of security incidents.
• Utilize and optimize security tools such as Panther for SIEM, CrowdStrike for endpoint detection and response, and other security platforms.
• Develop, implement, and maintain security playbooks and automation scripts to streamline security operations and reduce manual toil.
• Monitor security alerts and threat intelligence feeds, proactively identifying and addressing emerging threats.
• Conduct forensic analysis during security incidents to understand the scope and impact of incidents.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to integrate security best practices into development processes and provide guidance on secure configurations.
• Develop and deliver training to educate engineers on security operations and incident response best practices.

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or threat detection.
• Strong experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Panther, Splunk, Elastic Security) for log analysis, alert correlation, and dashboard creation.
• Deep working knowledge of endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools (e.g., CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) and their capabilities.
• Proven experience developing and implementing security automation using scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) or orchestration tools.
• Experience performing security incident investigations and forensic analysis.
• Familiarity with common attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong communication skills for collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
• A pragmatic and collaborative mindset, with a passion for building robust defenses and enabling other engineers to do their best, most secure work.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

About us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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