DFIR Automation Engineer - Global Security Organization

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Hands-on scripting/engineering ability for automation (Python,Go)
- Experience working with enterprise telemetry at scale (querying, correlation, pivoting) across multiple sources (internal platform audit logs, identity/cloud logs, endpoint/server telemetry, network logs, DLP).
- Ability to design workflows that produce defensible outputs: clear reasoning, evidence traceability, repeatable analysis steps, and auditable metadata.
- Solid understanding of investigation/DFIR fundamentals and common investigation patterns (data access, staging, exfiltration/misuse, and scope assessment).

Preferred Qualifications
- Background in one or more of: DFIR, incident response engineering, security automation/SOAR, threat hunting, detection engineering, security data engineering, or technical investigations (years of experience not a hard requirement).
- Experience building investigation/forensics tooling or automation that measurably reduces manual effort and improves consistency (e.g., one-click exports, auto-timeline, evidence index generation, report drafting).
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows for building security tooling (code generation, refactoring, test generation, documentation), with strong discipline around code review, testing, and change control.
- Familiarity with evidence defensibility requirements in regulated environments (audit support, evidence requests, privacy constraints, minimization).
- Experience with cross-domain investigations combining DLP + identity/cloud + endpoint/EDR/HIDS + network telemetry + internal platform audit logs.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $259200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA

Job ID: TikTok-7607953529833572613

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-19T19:57:57