Senior Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection – Response

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $115 - $137 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Maleda Tech

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Logistics • Recruitment

Maleda Tech is a global contingent workforce solutions provider offering Employer of Record (EOR) services, Managed Service Provider (MSP) programs, Vendor Management System (VMS) implementation, staff augmentation, recruiting, strategic sourcing, tail spend management, and legal/contract operations. They position themselves as a personalized, boutique partner focused on risk compliance and efficient hiring, with an emphasis on diversity (committed to recruiting at least 85% of employees from diverse backgrounds). The company also runs immersive training and mentorship programs to build candidate pipelines and has operations in the Bay Area (California, US) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

📋 Description

• Identify infrastructure visibility gaps and partner with business teams to improve logging and detection • Design and write detections for data misuse and data exfiltration at scale • Build automation and detection models to surface anomalous activity and accelerate response • Proactively hunt for insider threats across corporate and production environments • Partner with engineering teams to develop advanced detection solutions • Collaborate with Human Resources and Legal on complex investigations • Recommend and help design countermeasures to reduce insider risk • Participate in incident response and provide subject-matter expertise during insider threat incidents • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting 24/7 detection and response coverage • Contribute to security awareness messaging and training

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, or threat intelligence • Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience with insider threat technologies such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) • Exposure to data science and analytics approaches applicable to insider threat detection • Experience automating security detection and response • Solid understanding of insider threat and incident response coordination • Working knowledge of insider threat challenges at consumer-facing companies • Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks and their application to insider threats • Self-motivated, creative problem-solver able to work independently • Ability to remain calm and collaborative under pressure in time-sensitive situations • Strong organization, prioritization, and multitasking skills • Preferred: experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS • Preferred: proficiency in Python and SQL • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits offered • 24/7 detection and response on-call rotation support • Full-time, 40 hours per week schedule