- 8+ years of experience in detection engineering, security engineering, threat hunting, incident response, SOC engineering, or information security monitoring.
- A degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience building and tuning detections in a major SIEM or security analytics platform.
- Strong query and scripting skills, especially SPL, KQL, SQL, Python, or similar languages used to analyze security telemetry and automate repetitive work.
- Practical understanding of attacker behavior across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, email, collaboration tools, developer infrastructure, secrets, and data theft.
- Ability to move from raw logs to a production-ready detection, including field semantics, thresholds, joins, baselines, false positives, missing data, and triage context.
- Comfortable working with Git, code review, automated checks, CI/CD, documentation, and operational ownership of the content you ship.
- Clear communication and sound judgment. You should be able to explain why a detection matters, what it misses, what we should do next, and when we should choose not to alert.
Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd
- You have led or materially improved a detection-as-code program across more than one security platform.
- Background in cloud, identity, Kubernetes, CI/CD, supply-chain, or AI-tooling attack paths well enough to design detections without waiting for a complete recipe.
- Detected abuse in developer systems, package ecosystems, secrets workflows, AI coding tools, agents, bots, or model-serving infrastructure.
- Worked closely with incident response, threat hunting, red team, purple team, malware analysis, or forensics teams.
- Built validation methods such as replay tests, synthetic telemetry, attack emulation, detection unit tests, or coverage reporting.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 168,000 USD – 270,250 USD for Level 4; and 196,000 USD – 310,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 8, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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