Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection & Response

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130 - $142 / hour

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👮‍♂️ 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

• Perform investigations of security incidents using digital forensics and data analytics • Apply coding, data analytics, and investigative skills to hunt, detect, and respond to threats • Build automation and detection models to identify anomalous activity and support response efforts at scale • Proactively hunt for threats across corporate and production environments • Collaborate with engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions • Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, and other cross-functional teams on complex investigations • Identify visibility gaps across the environment and partner with business teams to close them through improved logging and detection • Partner cross-functionally to drive efficient, large-scale incident response • Contribute to root cause analysis that eliminates entire classes of security problems, not just individual incidents • Help define and execute the vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities • Mentor other engineers • Drive novel approaches to detecting, containing, and mitigating threats • Build, optimize, and scale security capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, including investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering • Proficiency in Python or another scripting language • Experience with SQL and Pandas a plus • Familiarity with Elasticsearch preferred • Ability to lead through influence in complex, ambiguous situations • Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in high-stress, high-stakes situations • Strong organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills • Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks • Experience automating security detection and response workflows • Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred • Self-motivated, creative problem-solver comfortable working independently • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship