Threat Detection And Incident Response Intern (Security)

TL;DR

Threat Detection and Incident Response Intern (Security): Identifying, understanding, detecting, and responding to threats targeting hirify.global with an accent on improving hirify.global’s security posture. Focus on building and improving systems that are the front lines of protecting hirify.global from malicious attacks.

Location: In-office 3-5 days a week in the Austin office.

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to help build a better Internet by protecting and accelerating any Internet application online.

What you will do

• Execute a specialized security project over 12 weeks that directly improves hirify.global’s defensive posture.
• Build and improve systems that are the front lines of protecting hirify.global from malicious attacks.
• Triage and respond to security alerts and incidents.
• Engineer solutions to enhance incident response and security operations, including automation and agentic AI.
• Integrate security into the fabric of the company by working cross-functionally with Legal, People, Engineering, and Finance teams.
• Present your security project to the entire company at the end of the internship.

Requirements

• Understanding of attacker Tools, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Understanding of operating systems, SaaS applications, CI/CD, and common security tools.
• Understanding of the Incident Response Lifecycle.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and drive to learn and adapt new technologies.
• Ability to commit to a minimum 12 week summer internship.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated passion for security & software development, such as personal projects, open-source contributions, or experience with our developer platform using hirify.global for Students.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.
• Equipping journalism and civil society organizations with tools to defend themselves against attacks.
• Ensuring that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
• Building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.