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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in detection engineering and threat hunting, with a strong focus on building and maintaining detection pipelines, utilizing SQL and programming languages like Python or Go. Proficient in analyzing data quality and improving workflows through automation and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Detection EngineeringThreat HuntingSQL ProficiencyPython ProgrammingMITRE ATT&CK Familiarity
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Hard Skills
Detection EngineeringThreat HuntingIncident ResponseSecurity Operations EngineeringTechnical Threat IntelligenceSQL ProficiencyPython ProgrammingData CorrelationAutomationMachine Learning
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsCollaborationCommunicationTroubleshootingHandling Sensitive Information
Tools & Technologies
SnowflakeCortexGoogle SecOpsSecurity Query LanguageOpen-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Industry Keywords
Detection PipelinesTelemetryBehavioral AnalysisFalse-Positive AnalysisTechnical Reviews
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudPythonSQLGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build technical capabilities to identify and investigate threats to protected individuals
- Build detections, enrichment, and automation across identity, endpoint, cloud, marketplace, support, physical access, and open-source signals
- Translate threat intelligence, incidents, investigative needs, and observed behavior into production detections
- Test, deploy, tune, and maintain detections and supporting pipelines at scale
- Correlate enterprise telemetry, marketplace activity, physical security events, OSINT, support interactions, and other data
- Apply rules, statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-based techniques to improve detection quality and investigative context
- Investigate detections by querying and correlating data, validating hypotheses, and assessing confidence, scope, and impact
- Continuously improve detection logic, tooling, and workflows using investigation outcomes and false-positive analysis
- Contribute to technical reviews, testing, documentation, standards, and automation
- Participate in on-call and support major investigations
- Partner with Protective Services, engineering, investigative, and response teams
- Report to the Engineering Manager, Protective Services
Requirements
What you’ll need- 3+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, security operations engineering, technical threat intelligence, or software engineering applied to security problems
- Experience contributing to production detection pipelines using source control, testing, review, deployment, and monitoring practices
- Proficiency in SQL or a security query language
- Ability to write maintainable code in Python, Go, or another relevant language
- Strong analytical skills and ability to explore unfamiliar datasets, assess data quality, troubleshoot across systems, and create testable detection hypotheses
- Experience triaging alerts and investigations, correlating signals across data sources, assessing confidence and scope, and communicating evidence-supported conclusions
- Experience building detections or conducting investigations using security, behavioral, or other relevant telemetry
- Experience using automation or analytics to improve detection and investigation workflows
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK or D3FEND
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to handle sensitive information appropriately
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with Snowflake, Cortex, or Google SecOps is preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity grants
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles
- 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement