Senior Cyber Security Engineer III

Senior Cyber Security Engineer III , Platforms

Job Description

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are:

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

We're looking for an experienced security engineer with expertise in cloud-native architecture, legacy system hardening, and modern DevSecOps/SRE practices. You'll collaborate across engineering teams to embed security into platforms and applications from design to production, driving continuous improvement and resilience.

What You'll Do:

• As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will join our team to strengthen and scale our e-commerce systems, collaborating with product and engineering teams from day one to proactively secure our software and infrastructure.
• Security Monitoring and Incident Handling: Continuously monitor and investigate system logs for potential threats, conduct root cause analysis, incident response and drive effective containment and remediation actions.
• Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting: 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 across the environment.
• Automation and Orchestration:Build and maintain automated workflows and integrations across security tools to enable faster detection, triage, and response. Develop custom scripts and SOAR playbooks that improve analyst productivity and strengthen SOC efficiency.
• Adversary Emulation / Offensive Assessments: Design and execute offensive security operations, including red teaming, penetration testing, and exploit development. Emulate threat actor behaviors to assess detection capabilities and drive improvements across security posture and incident response.
• Vulnerability Management: Build and operationalize vulnerability management program, defining processes, and metrics, vulnerability detection, assessment, and remediation in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in a shared on-call schedule.
• Mentor new hires and other engineers by example, tech talks, paired programming, and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organization.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 7-10 years experience working in security operations, incident response, detection engineering and red / offensive security.
• Hands on Experience with one or more SIEM platforms (e.g - Splunk, Sentinel, Qradar, Google Secops) and EDR / XDR Solutions (e.g - Crowdstrike, Sentinel One)
• Proficiency Scripting in Python, Go, Java, Bash etc for automation and tooling.
• Experience creating automated SOAR playbooks or managing orchestration workflows (e.g - Demisto, SOAR modules, custom automation)
• Practical Offensive skills: Experience with Building and executing adversary Emulation, C2 frameworks, red team tools and engagement and 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 across engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike

• Ample experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders, and reaching consensus on prioritization

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews

• Certifications: OSCP, CISSP, GCIH, GCTI, or similar certifications.

• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform)

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we're reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you're looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you'll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We're a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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