Security Detection Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale high-signal detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application layers using Detection-as-Code principles.
• Develop and maintain detection logic aligned to real-world attacker behavior and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable detections and validate effectiveness through adversary emulation and testing.
• Build behavioral detections to protect against threats such as account takeover, credential abuse, API misuse, and data exfiltration.
• Continuously improve detection quality by tuning alerts, reducing false positives, and implementing automated enrichment.
• Support and lead incident investigations, including containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident detection improvements.
• Partner with Engineering, IT, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ensure systems launch with strong monitoring coverage.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Information Security, with a focus on detection engineering or security operations.
• Demonstrated experience writing and tuning detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, or application environments.
• Familiarity with detection frameworks and tooling such as YARA, SIGMA, or Suricata.
• Strong understanding of attacker techniques, including identity compromise, cloud abuse, and lateral movement.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or PowerShell for automation and tool development.
• Experience supporting incident response investigations and participating in on-call rotations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building detective controls for consumer-facing platforms or detecting API abuse at scale.
• Familiarity with applying data analysis or machine learning techniques to security detection or alert triage.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.

About the Company

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