2020 Summer Internships

Enterprise Security Intern - Detection Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Join 23andMe in our mission is to be the world's trusted source of personal genetic information. We are seeking an outstanding information security engineer focused on detection and threat response who wants to challenge themselves, identify threats to the business and help protect customer data.

Who we are

Since 2006, 23andMe’s mission has been to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome.  We are a group of passionate individuals pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to help turn genetic insight into better health and personal understanding.

Summer 2020 Project Overview

• Coordinate with IT on vulnerability management and patch cycles to ensure that the company is managing risk appropriately and addressing issues that arise quickly and efficiently.  
• Work within the Enterprise Security team and with IT peers to identify threats within the environment through traditional threat hunting techniques.  Identify opportunities to improve playbooks and create automation. Work collaboratively to speed up response time and to determine the state of the potential threat.
• Assist the security organization to identify automation opportunities and work to implement those integrations and automation improvements within the security tooling.

What you'll do

• Be a key member of the Enterprise Security team.
• Address multiple technical challenges across multiple security tools.
• Actively threat hunt within security tools and determine steps to triage and filter the true events from background noise.
• Create threat hunting playbooks.
• Work with vulnerability management platforms to create reporting and then partner with IT to ensure timely patching and remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
• Design and implement new security playbooks and automation.
• Define, design, and build threat detection methodologies; help to improve the security posture of the company. 
• Work among the greater IT and information security teams to build integrations, solve challenging problems, and help to automate our response to targeted threats. 
• Lead by example and share your creativity, wit and experience across the team. Enjoy a collaborative environment with small project teams working on a variety of tasks ranging from threat detection within multiple enterprise security tools, assessing threats and providing targeted responses and monitoring the corporate environment for potential risks.

What you'll bring

• Passion for security!
• Demonstrated skills around offensive and/or defensive security technologies.
• Ability to communicate and work well with others.
• Ability to think critically about challenging problems to determine the most effective method to solve and address.
• Some knowledge and capability with scripting programming languages and paradigms
• Understanding of security concepts.

Join the gene pool as part of 23andMe’s Summer Intern Class of 2020! Our Summer Internship Program is full-time for 12 weeks and provides opportunities to be involved in work that’s impactful at a mission-driven company. All internship opportunities are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The expected start dates are in May or June depending on your school schedule. Please note, students will be responsible for their own housing and relocation. All applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. 

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