Associate Security Engineer
Core
Design, build, and improve security capabilities to detect, investigate, and respond to threats for Xero and its customers.
Role type
Associate Security Engineer (Security Defence)
Builds
Detection content, integrations, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, playbooks, and automations for SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and cloud security platforms.
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Detection Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Security engineering, scripting, debugging, automation, building small integrations, threat intelligence analysis, cloud security knowledge
Preferred skills
AI-assisted tools usage, unfamiliar codebase navigation, pairing and feedback
Technologies
SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security tooling
Responsibilities
Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspected incidents; Contribute to detection, monitoring, enrichment, and response workflows; Build and improve detection content and alerting; Develop runbooks, playbooks, and automations; Expand threat-intelligence-led detection engineering coverage
Seniority
Junior, hands-on IC with guidance
