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About the Role

The Detection & Response team protects eBay’s global marketplace by identifying, investigating, and responding to cyber threats. This role is central to high-impact security work, partnering with various teams to reduce risk and strengthen resilience. You will investigate advanced threats, improve detections, and help compose scalable response capabilities, influencing how eBay detects and responds to modern adversaries.

Responsibilities

Lead high-impact incident response across various scenarios, including external intrusions, insider threats, and misuse.
Improve eBay’s ability to detect and respond to threats by building, tuning, and maintaining SIEM detections and alert logic.
Investigate complex security events end-to-end by reconstructing activity from telemetry, identifying root cause, and driving containment, eradication, and recovery.
Apply threat modeling to new systems, infrastructure, and features, translating security risks into practical telemetry, detection, and response requirements.
Proactively hunt for attacker behavior, surface visibility gaps, and turn adversary research into actionable countermeasures, playbooks, and detective controls.
Develop automation and tooling, including AI- or agent-assisted workflows, to streamline enrichment, triage, evidence collection, and response actions.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in incident response, detection engineering, threat hunting, or a closely related security field.
Track record of leading investigations and improving response operations.
Strong understanding of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Hands-on experience across cloud and SaaS environments, with the ability to develop detection approaches that can scale across platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience working in Kubernetes or containerized environments, including using cluster telemetry to investigate activity and identify common attack paths or failure patterns.
Proven network and digital forensics fundamentals, including analyzing network traffic and applying forensically sound practices during active investigations.
Scripting or automation experience in Python or a similar language.
Strong communication skills.
Flexibility to participate in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Incident Response
Detection Engineering
Threat Hunting
Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Kubernetes/Container Security
Network Forensics
Digital Forensics
Python Scripting
Automation

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Remote

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$118,800 - $205,600

Benefits

Target bonus
Restricted stock units
Medical benefits
Financial benefits
401(k) eligibility
Paid time off
Parental leave

About the Company

eBay is a global ecommerce leader changing the way the world shops and sells.
Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets.
We are committed to pushing boundaries and reinventing the future of ecommerce.
Our values include customer focus, authenticity, bold ideas, and inclusivity.
We are dedicated to sustaining the future of our customers, company, and planet.
We connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Equal Opportunity

eBay is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status.
We make every effort to respond to requests for accommodation as soon as possible.
We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.