Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maleda Tech is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to support a growing Threat Detection and Response function for a major technology organization. The role focuses on investigating and responding to security incidents, hunting threats, building automated detection and response capabilities, and improving security visibility at scale while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- 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, partnering 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Self-motivated, creative problem-solver comfortable working independently
- Remote (within the US)
- 40 hours/week, 8 hours/day, Monday-Friday
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch preferred
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred
Benefits
- Remote (within the US)
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