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Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Cribl

Cribl, a leading telemetry infrastructure company, as a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. In this hands-on role, you'll be responsible for the entire detection lifecycle, from hunting for threats to turning findings into durable detections. You'll also be a core part of the incident response rotation and will work closely with various teams to improve detection coverage.

Responsibilities

  • This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, disability and income protection, mental health care, retirement plans, family planning benefits, generous time off, and remote office perks.
  • Design, build, test, and tune detections as code (KQL) through a GitOps workflow, and map detections to MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Plan and run hypothesis-driven hunts across cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, and corporate infrastructure telemetry, and turn hunt findings into durable detections.
  • Take part in the incident response rotation, triage, scope, contain, and investigate security incidents from first alert to closure.
  • Clear writing for both technical and non-technical audiences: incident summaries, runbooks, detection docs

Requirements

Bonus: certifications such as GCIH,GCDA, or equivalent experience

  • Uses AI as a routine part of engineering work, with concrete examples of how it has changed how you build, test, or investigate
  • Experience investigating incidents in cloud (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure), SaaS, and identity providers
  • The judgment to separate a real signal from noise, and to know when to escalate

Strong in KQL for writing detection queries

  • Bonus: experience building agentic or AI-assisted workflows for security operations
  • Strong Python skills and comfort with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI/CD
  • [5+] years in security operations, with significant hands-on time in detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response
  • Hands-on experience with log pipelines: getting data in, parsing it, and fixing it when it breaks
  • Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and how to use it for coverage analysis, not just labeling

Preferred

  • Experience writing and maintaining detections as code in a modern SIEM
  • Bonus: experience with Sigma rules, adversary emulation (Atomic Red Team, Caldera, or similar), or purple teaming
  • Bonus: experience with Cribl Stream or other telemetry pipeline tools

Pay

USD 108,000 - 169,000