Lead Detection Engineer Job Description
We are seeking a skilled Lead Detection Engineer to join our global team. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of security and hands-on technical automation experience, with 5 or more of those years focused on creating use cases and detection-focused automation.
The successful candidate will work on globally distributed teams, collaborating with Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and other stakeholder teams. They will support leading production-level projects to completion, maintaining existing internal code, use cases, and extending SIEM and SOAR integrations aligned to the Detection Engineering program efforts.
The key responsibilities of this role include designing and engineering Security Operations-focused integrations and automations, including diagrams, documentation, and threat modeling. Additionally, the candidate will support the Director of Detection Engineering in enhancing the strategic capabilities of the program through complex technical projects.
To be successful in this position, the ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of SOC, SIEM, and other engineering best practices, limitations, and ways of extending or customizing threat detection automation-related use cases. Hands-on skills in a major scripting/programming language or search query language for use in security operations and threat detection are also required.