# Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats

**Company:** [6sense](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/6sense)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $231k – $266k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SIEM, Soar, AWS, Mitre Att&Ck, Vulnerability Scanners, ISO 27001, SOC 2, Nist, Cissp, Cism
**Posted:** 2026-05-11

> Leads SecOps and threat response, including incident handling, forensics, automation building, and threat exercises. Requires 5+ years in Security Operations, automation experience, and familiarity with security tools like SIEM, SOAR, and AWS.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap
- Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis
- Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis
- Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services
- Perform security forensics
- Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale
- Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research
- Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation
- Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity
- Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

## Performance Measurement
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense's product, environment, systems, and architecture
- Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels
- Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation
- Mitigates security exposures
- Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs
- Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects
- Executes on milestones associated with major security projects
- Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards
- Provides project status updates on a weekly basis

## Educational and Experience Requirements
- 5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team
- 3+ years of experience developing automation
- 2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises
- Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, **SIEM**, **SOAR**, **AWS**)
- Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: **MITRE ATT&CK**, STRIDE, PASTA, **ISO 27001**, **SOC 2**, GDPR, PCI, SOX, **NIST**, etc.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Relevant industry certifications, such as **CISSP**, **CISM**, or **GIAC**

## Compensation
**Base Salary Range: $231,089.25 - $265,930.90.** Actual salaries may vary based on work location and experience. Includes bonus, stock options, health insurance, 401K matching, PTO, and self-care days.

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