Paranoids Detection Engineering Senior Manager

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries of all types within all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Yahoo one of the safest places on the Internet.
We are the information security team at Yahoo; known as "The Paranoids".

As a part of the Paranoids Detection Engineering Team, we protect Yahoo, its brands, and their users. We ensure that our users are kept safe from targeted attacks and account hijacking by government backed attackers. We investigate cyber threats which affect Yahoo's infrastructure, properties, and worldwide user base and apply innovative legal and technical remedies to mitigate those activities.

A Lot About You

We are seeking a dynamic Detection Engineering Sr. Manager to join our Threat Detection and Response team. Our ideal candidate will be a leader who can support their employees, brainstorm with their peers, and tenaciously disrupt adversaries. This team is responsible for developing creative detections in order to identify a wide range of cybersecurity threats, from criminal groups to APTs. Our candidate will guide, organize, and lead a team who will build and maintain threat detection rules. Crucially, they will work hand in hand with our Incident Response Team and Insider Threat Program to find adversaries. Our candidate will also help integrate threat intelligence in collaboration with our Advanced Cyber Threats Team to enhance our detection capabilities and ensure we identify threats to our business as early and as quickly as possible. Our candidate will also leverage traditional data science along with artificial intelligence capabilities to scale our ability to find threats across our infrastructure, using sound judgement on how to deploy and validate these new capabilities. 

You are an ideal candidate for our team if you value:

• Protecting employees and users, and making the Internet a safer place for everyone.

• Leading and supporting a team of creative detection engineers. 

• Collaboratively working with other security leaders. 

• Thinking outside the box. 

• Relentlessly identifying and stopping bad actors. 

• Demonstrating deep curiosity and staying ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape.

• Taking proactive initiative to identify gaps and solve complex security problems.

• Building new capabilities.

On a typical day, you may find yourself:

• Shaping and executing our cybersecurity detection strategy alongside detection engineers and Threat Detection and Response leadership.

• Brainstorming detection, hunt, and purple-team ideas. 

• Running a hypothesis-driven research cycle where every engineer carries research commitments and delivery

• Guiding the sprint process for building and deploying detections. 

• Consulting on and supporting cybersecurity investigations as a leader of the Threat Detection and Response Action Group. 

• Building a new system which catches bad actors. 

• Collaboratively developing Paranoids strategy. 

• Having fun with your team!

Requirements include a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, along with a strong track record of leading security or engineering teams. Qualified candidates should possess experience with Python, performant SQL querying, ETL workflows and tools, SIEM platforms, statistical analysis, machine learning models, and cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS preferred). Experience with AI tools (such as Claude or Codex) and sound judgment regarding their practical application to detections is highly valued.

An ideal candidate will bring a firm understanding of threat detection frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain®) and experience applying threat intelligence to build effective detection logic. Experience with Databricks is a plus.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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