Job ID: 25-171

Come Join Our Passionate Team!  At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.

We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization.  Barracuda Networks is proud to be an employer that complies with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

Envision yourself at Barracuda:

Barracuda XDR is seeking a passionate and seasoned Cybersecurity Engineer to help us deliver excellent threat research, detection capabilities, and incident response guidance to our customers. You must possess a strong background in security and data engineering, automation, use-case development, threat hunting, and attack simulation. This is a unique opportunity to work with over 40 different cloud, endpoint, and network data sources blending security knowledge with data engineering. Our global 24×7 SOC team is innovative, competitive, and committed to continuous improvement. We are looking for candidates with strong communication, support, and leadership skills. This role requires flexibility and an eagerness to learn new technologies 

What you’ll be working on:  

• Detection engineering and use-case development.
• ETL, normalization, SQL, python notebooks, anomaly detection.
• Emerging threat research and threat intelligence gathering.
• SOC tier 3 escalation support.
• Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR).
• Adversarial emulation and ethical hacking.
• Incident response and report writing.
• Fun cutting-edge security projects.

What you bring to the role:

A candidate should have a strong foundation in security operations, which provides the context for advanced engineering projects within the Barracuda XDR SOC.

Security Operations

• At least 3 years of experience working for a SOC or CIRT is required.
• Comfortable and confident leading complex security investigations.
• Strong threat hunting abilities in SIEM solutions such as Elastic or Splunk.
• Basic hands-on experience with Kali Linux and other offensive security tools.
• Experience working with API-based integrations or SOAR applications.
• Basic familiarity with cloud services such as AWS and Azure and network technologies like the TCP/IP stack, firewall management, IDS/IPS, and log collection techniques.

 Security and Data Engineering 

• At least 2 years of experience with CICD, Python and SQL is required.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end detection engineering: research, development, automation, testing (Attack-and-Defend), and documentation.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Elastic and Databricks is preferred.

 General Requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to work across time zones when required – we have team members in US East and Ireland also.
• Experience with publishing blogs, Github projects, and speaking engagements.
• A college degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related domain.
• Relevant security industry certifications such as CySA+, PNPT, or eJPT are preferred

What you’ll get from us:

A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda. In addition, you will receive equity, in the form of non-qualifying options. 

Hybrid: #LI-hybrid