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Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Wayfair

All India 7 to 11 Yrs 1 month ago

Job Description

You will be based in Bangalore, India and are expected to comply with your team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Wayfair leads e-commerce for all things home, driven by modern tech. They seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Their culture values fast, data-driven innovation.

As a Cyber Security Engineer at Wayfair, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to proactively secure software and infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Continuously monitor and investigate system logs for potential threats
  • Conduct root cause analysis, incident response, and drive effective containment and remediation actions
  • Design and implement detection rules, alerts, and monitoring systems to identify emerging threats
  • Proactively hunt for indicators of compromise, analyze attacker techniques, and enhance detection capabilities
  • Build and maintain automated workflows and integrations across security tools
  • Develop custom scripts and SOAR playbooks to improve analyst productivity
  • Build and operationalize a vulnerability management program
  • Participate in a shared on-call schedule
  • Mentor new hires and other engineers to increase technical efficiency across the organization

To be a match for this role, you should have:

  • 7-10 years experience in security operations, incident response, detection engineering, and red/offensive security
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel, Qradar, Google Secops) and EDR/XDR Solutions (e.g., Crowdstrike, Sentinel One)
  • Experience in Adversary Emulation or Offensive Assessments
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java, and Bash for automation and tooling
  • Experience creating automated SOAR playbooks or managing orchestration workflows
  • Practical offensive skills including building and executing adversary emulation, C2 frameworks, red team tools, and engagement in purple team exercises
  • Experience with cloud platforms GCP, AWS, Azure, and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Design experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and related technologies
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git)
  • Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders
  • Experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews
  • Certifications such as OSCP, CISSP, GCIH, GCTI, or similar certifications
  • Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform) You will be based in Bangalore, India and are expected to comply with your team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Wayfair leads e-commerce for all things home, driven by modern tech. They seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Their culture values fast, data-driven innovation.

As a Cyber Security Engineer at Wayfair, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to proactively secure software and infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Continuously monitor and investigate system logs for potential threats
  • Conduct root cause analysis, incident response, and drive effective containment and remediation actions
  • Design and implement detection rules, alerts, and monitoring systems to identify emerging threats
  • Proactively hunt for indicators of compromise, analyze attacker techniques, and enhance detection capabilities
  • Build and maintain automated workflows and integrations across security tools
  • Develop custom scripts and SOAR playbooks to improve analyst productivity
  • Build and operationalize a vulnerability management program
  • Participate in a shared on-call schedule
  • Mentor new hires and other engineers to increase technical efficiency across the organization

To be a match for this role, you should have:

  • 7-10 years experience in security operations, incident response, detection engineering, and red/offensive security
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel, Qradar, Google Secops) and EDR/XDR Solutions (e.g., Crowdstrike, Sentinel One)
  • Experience in Adversary Emulation or Offensive Assessments
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java, and Bash for automation and tooling
  • Experience creating automated SOAR playbooks or managing orchestration workflows
  • Practical offensive skills including building and executing adversary emulation, C2 frameworks, red team tools, and engagement in purple team exercises
  • Experience with cloud platforms GCP, AWS, Azure, and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Design experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and related technologies
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git)
  • Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders
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Posted on: March 30, 2026