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Gong Senior Security Detections Engineer 
United States, California, San Francisco 
162526045

04.03.2025

As a member of security operations, you’ll play a key role in ensuring trust and security are core to day-to-day operations. This will be a hands-on position as we mature our security team, and you will be responsible for improving and automating our security operations practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against Gong’s enterprise environment
  • Develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors/security controls.
  • Actively research cybersecurity exploits, vulnerabilities, techniques, and tactics
  • Analyze and tune logs, events, and SIEM alerts, identifying trends and patterns that may require early action
  • Perform incident response investigation from escalated events on various workloads / systems
  • Perform host-based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response.
  • Coordinate security investigations, endpoint containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and support teams.
  • Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect/mitigate the IOCs, and TTPs.
  • Responsible for deploying and supporting tools to collect and correlate security telemetry.
  • Leverage automation & APIs where possible in support of SecOps, IR and the security program. (As needed)
  • Develop and maintain effective documentation, including response playbooks, processes, and other supporting operational material.
  • Communicate cybersecurity risks and solutions to various technical and non-technical audiences and levels of management.
  • Generate reports for both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders
  • Assist with internal and external audits relating to information security
  • Comply with HIPAA and SOC-II, Diversity Principles, Corporate Integrity, Compliance Program policies, and other applicable corporate and departmental policies.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • 7+ years of security operations experience
  • Experience with detection engineering, threat hunting and incident response in a cloud environment
  • Experience developing security automation with Python, AWS, and workflow automation tools
  • In-depth knowledge of SIEM (Security Information Event Management) and data lakes such as Snowflake
  • Experience in developing custom content within Snowflake, including stored procedures, user-defined functions, and complex SQL queries against large datasets of endpoint and network telemetry
  • Building custom threat detection tooling and frameworks
  • AWS Experience including Guard Duty, S3 Storage, Cloudtrail, etc.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform
  • Familiarity with attack frameworks and mitigation
  • Relevant security certifications such as the GCDA, and GMON is a plus
  • Research, build, and maintain detections for the latest threats identified through SIEM correlations, active/past incidents & threat intelligence sources
  • Ability to collect and audit logging capabilities of internal services, SaaS systems, and work with engineering teams in improving log visibility for Security Operations engineers
  • Experience building data ingestion pipelines for large(GB/TB) unstructured data volumes
  • Familiarity with data normalization, cleansing and sanitation lifecycle
  • Experience dissecting an attackers techniques & methodologies while translating to custom detections is a plus
PERKS & BENEFITS
  • We offer Gongsters a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs.
  • Wellbeing Fund - flexible wellness stipend to support a healthy lifestyle.
  • Mental Health benefits with covered therapy and coaching.
  • 401(k) program to help you invest in your future.
  • Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development.
  • Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend.
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family.
  • Company-wide recharge days each quarter.
  • Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment.