Sr. Incident Responder

As a member of the Incident Response Team, you will respond to ever-evolving cyber threats. You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled professionals and cross-functional teams to defend the company across diverse environments. This role requires a blend of strong technical knowledge, investigative skills, and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Austin TX and Bay Area highly preferred. What You’ll Do

• Investigate security alerts, perform in-depth analysis, and respond to cybersecurity events in real-time
• Implement containment to limit the impact of a security threat while ensuring business continuity
• Identify, analyze, and respond to web-based threats, including SQL injection, credential stuffing, server-side request forgery, cross-site scripting, and other vulnerabilities & threats
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage and resolve security incidents swiftly and effectively
• Design and optimize new and existing automations
• Enhance response and detection capabilities, improve high-fidelity signals, eliminate noise, and reduce manual investigation efforts
• Analyze adversarial tactics and recommend detection and protection strategies
• Lead postmortem reviews, conduct root cause analyses, and drive remediation efforts

• Ability to operate at scale and adapt to change in complex and diverse environments
• Senior or Lead experience in one or more of the following areas: Incident Response, Security Operations, DFIR, Security DevOps, SecOps, Threat Hunting, Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience leading multiple stakeholders such as engineering/operations teams, internal business units, external incident response teams, throughout the incident lifecycle
• Large scale analysis of log data using tools such as Splunk, Elastic, or similar
• Performing in-depth log analysis across diverse and uncommon log sources
• Analysis of network traffic from intrusion detection systems and flow monitoring systems
• Security event correlation, data visualization, graphing, timelines, and trending
• File system, memory, or live response on Windows, MacOS and/or Linux

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Expected Compensation $168,000 - $252,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Tesla operates huge, vertically integrated factories across three continents and a global Supercharger network. We solve problems at-scale across cutting edge technologies in world-class supercomputing, AI/ML, manufacturing 5G/OT, Energy OT, and enterprise IT environments. Using a first-principles approach, we solve some of the world’s biggest problems. If you’ve done exceptional work, join us in tackling the next generation of engineering, manufacturing, and operational challenges.