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Staff Security Operations Engineer

128k – 200kUnited StatesSecurity EngineeringRemote7+ YOE
Summary

Lead security operations and threat detection engineering for a remote-first telemetry platform company. Design detection logic, manage incidents, and optimize SIEM/EDR tooling.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Monitor security events and alerts via SIEM, MSSP, AI, and CSPM tooling to identify and triage threats
  • Develop, implement, and maintain high-fidelity detection rules and alerts in SIEM and other security platforms (EDR, Cloud Security tools) using threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK
  • Continuously tune and optimize detection logic to reduce false positives
  • Act as security incident response lead, leveraging and improving detection capabilities during investigations
  • Build, enhance, and manage security playbooks incorporating detection engineering best practices
  • Conduct security assessments of corporate assets through vulnerability testing, threat hunts, and purple team activities
  • Perform internal and external security reviews of corporate properties and enterprise applications
  • Lead security incident response tabletop exercises
  • Champion use of Cribl products in the security tech stack to enhance detection, analysis, and response
  • Collaborate with threat intelligence teams to integrate new IOCs and TTPs into detection strategies

Requirements

  • Strong experience with modern security principles: SIEM, security data lakes, detection as code, EDR, zero trust networking
  • Demonstrated experience with incident response and management
  • Strong understanding of common attack frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK) and mapping detections to TTPs
  • Understanding of authentication and authorization schemes (SAML, OpenID, OAuth2, SCIM)
  • Scripting/coding experience in at least one of: Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Bash
  • Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining detection rules (Sigma, YARA, Splunk SPL, KQL)
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, strong analytical acumen, self-motivated, able to work cross-functionally

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with SIEM platforms like Panther
  • Familiarity with Wiz and cloud native security tooling for AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Relevant certifications in cloud security or incident response (e.g., SANS GIAC)
  • Ability to communicate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
Skills
SIEMEDRMITRE ATT&CKPythonNodeJSRubyBashSigmaYARASplunk SPLKQLSAMLOAuth2OpenIDSCIM
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