Senior Software Engineer, Security (Incident Detection & Response) (Remote - Ireland)

Requirements:

• Significant professional experience working to secure consumer websites, mobile applications, and/or large corporate IT infrastructure.
• Familiarity with malware analysis, network flow analysis, digital forensics, and SOAR and SIEM platforms.
• Knowledge of modern threat intel (TIP) platforms.
• Experience in threat modeling, threat hunting, and/or vulnerability management.
• Software development skills in Python, JavaScript, Objective-C, or similar.
• Experience building custom tools and solutions to help mature monitoring, detection, and response capabilities, including automating manual processes.
• Passion for ensuring secure design review and educating others in security best practices.

What you'll be doing:

• Participate in incident response as a lead, investigator, and/or communicator throughout the lifecycle of a security incident.
• Develop automated tooling to recognize attacker TTPs (Tools, Tactics and Procedures) and IoCs (Indicators of Compromise).
• Design, develop, maintain, and operationalize monitoring, correlation, and alerting capabilities for Yelp’s corporate network, infrastructure, and applications to detect suspicious or anomalous behavior.
• Improve and enhance vulnerability detection and response capabilities.
• Help define policies and security best practices for IT, infrastructure, and other internal organizations and third-party integrations.
• Assist in performing threat modeling across business applications and infrastructure integrations.
• Exhibit strong communication skills to enforce rigorous security standards, while upholding Yelp’s value to play well with others.
• Partner with diverse stakeholders to advance Yelp’s goals.

Perks and Benefits:

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
• €150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
• €95 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.
• Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.
• €95 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.
• Quarterly team offsites.