Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $177.2k - $364.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Description

• Act as senior technical resource for the Detection & Response Team • Identify capability gaps and help define the team’s strategy and roadmap • Improve the detection engineering program and lead efforts to build new capabilities • Build alerts and automation workflows to detect and respond to external and internal security threats • Manage logging pipelines and supporting infrastructure, and onboard new logging sources • Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand and automate detection and response capabilities • Respond to alerts and lead incidents as part of an on-call rotation • Collaborate with cross-functional security and engineering partners • Hunt for previously undetected threats • Leverage AI to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of security engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Broad and deep knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response in a modern, cloud-first environment • Knowledge of attacker lifecycle, common attack techniques, and detection methods • Hands-on experience writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting • Experience consuming threat intelligence and applying it to improve detection capabilities • Familiarity with EDR, Osquery, and firewall logs for threat investigations • Understanding of networking technologies and/or network security, including basic TCP/IP fundamentals • Depth in ideally macOS internals, or alternatively Linux/UNIX or Windows internals, including persistence mechanisms and privilege escalation techniques • Scripting or automation experience with Python, Go, or Ruby • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflow • Strong track record of evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work • High integrity and ownership when protecting sensitive data and making final decisions • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, a related field, or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity eligibility • Flexible working model / PinFlex • In-person collaboration 1–2 times every 6 months • Equal opportunity employment • Medical or religious accommodation support during the application process

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