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Staff Security Engineer - Detection & Response

Chegg
🇮🇳In-Person - Jasola, India₹2M–₹3.5M/yri1d ago
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Staff Security Engineer – Detection & Response role at Chegg focused on protecting student data by triaging alerts, investigating security incidents, and building detection capabilities across SIEM, endpoint, cloud, and email security platforms.

Key Responsibilities: Investigate and triage alerts from security platforms to identify real intrusions, lead end-to-end incident response including containment and recovery, build and tune detection content, develop incident response playbooks, and collaborate with IT and engineering teams to remediate security weaknesses.
Skills & Tools: Expertise in SIEM/UEBA and endpoint detection and response tools, incident response leadership, understanding of attacker tradecraft and MITRE ATT&CK framework, AWS security knowledge, detection logic and query writing, Python scripting and automation, forensic investigation across Windows/macOS/Linux, and strong communication skills.
Qualifications: 7+ years in security operations, detection and response, or incident response with hands-on alert investigation and incident leadership experience. Practical knowledge of cloud environments (preferably AWS), security tooling deployment, and forensic artifact analysis.
Location: In-Person - Jasola, India
Compensation: ₹2M–₹3.5M/yr (estimated)

Job Description

Job Description Staff Security Engineer Detection & Response Your goal to improve the education process and better the lives of students by keeping their data secure.

What you will do: Triage and investigate alerts from our SIEM/UEBA, endpoint detection and response, cloud, and email security platforms to determine whether indicators of compromise represent a real intrusion Declare, lead, and manage security incidents end to end endpoint compromise, cloud and infrastructure compromise, credential theft, phishing, and insider risk through containment, eradication, and recovery Own written incident documentation, including timelines, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews that drive durable fixes rather than one-off cleanup Build, tune, and maintain detection content to expand coverage of real attacker behavior while reducing false positives and alert fatigue Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and runbooks Between incidents, contribute to security engineering work: deploying and operating security tooling in our cloud environment, closing logging and telemetry gaps, and automating response actions Partner with IT, engineering, and cloud platform teams to drive remediation of identified weaknesses to closure What you’ll bring 7+ years of relevant work experience, with significant time spent in security operations, detection and response, or incident response Hands-on experience investigating alerts across SIEM/UEBA and endpoint detection and response tooling, and separating true positives from noise at volume Demonstrated experience leading incident response from detection through recovery, including coordinating responders and stakeholders across teams Strong understanding of attacker tradecraft and common attack paths across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud, and familiarity with a framework such as MITRE ATT&CK Working knowledge of security in cloud environments, ideally AWS, including identity, logging, and the misconfigurations attackers most often abuse Experience writing and tuning detection logic, correlation rules, or queries against large log data sets Scripting and automation ability, such as Python, and comfort working with open-source tools and APIs to connect systems and remove manual effort Practical familiarity with Windows, macOS, and Linux internals, and the forensic artifacts each produces during an investigation Sound judgment and composure under pressure, including the ability to make decisions with incomplete information Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain an incident clearly to both engineers and executives Ability to work independently and with various other teams across the organization Creative, resourceful, and adaptive problem solving Stand Out Qualifications Experience with a SIEM or UEBA platform such as Exabeam, and an endpoint detection and response platform such as SentinelOne Experience working in AWS with features such as GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub, Inspector, IAM, WAF and Shield Experience managing detection content as code, under version control and peer review Familiarity with SOAR platforms and automated response workflows Digital forensics, malware analysis, or reverse engineering experience Experience working with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, OSCP, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty Why do we exist? Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Chegg Skills, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.

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Skills: https://www.chegg.com/skills Chegg out our culture and benefits! http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/benefits/ Chegg is an equal opportunity employer What is Chegg? An ‘always on’ digital learning platform. Chegg puts students first…Everything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.

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