Senior Security Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our internal security team who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You have a passion for innovation, solid design principles, and high-quality development. You bring strong infrastructure and detection engineering fundamentals, a security-first mindset, and a deep understanding of cloud and networking concepts.

• →Infrastructure Design and Maintenance:
• →Design, improve, and maintain secure, durable, and performant infrastructure to power applications, security tooling, log collection, and data mining/ETL workflows.
• →Evolve log collection, processing, and storage infrastructure enabling security monitoring and investigations.
• →Support multi-account and multi-region AWS networking architectures with security-first principles.
• →Detection Engineering and Automation:
• →Develop and maintain Splunk detection content aligned to the relevant frameworks and evolving threat intelligence.
• →Administer the Splunk Cloud platform, including search health, log health, and app, platform, and content updates.
• →Design and implement SOAR playbooks to automate investigation and response workflows.
• →Integrate infrastructure security tooling and automation to enhance detection, prevention, and response capabilities.
• →Build and maintain detection-as-code and automated deployment pipelines to ensure consistency, repeatability, and auditability.
• →Continuously refine detection logic to reduce false positives and increase signal quality.
• →Security and Compliance:
• →Implement and operate security technologies across the enterprise, such as an endpoint security platforn.
• →Support incident response and investigation escalations.
• →Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as SOC 2/ISO27001.
• →Implement and uphold security measures across all infrastructure components.
• →Work cross-functionally with Product, IT, DevOps, and Engineering teams to drive secure-by-default practices.
• →Technical Leadership
• →Drive architectural and design decisions for SpyCloud’s detection program and platforms.
• →Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices across infrastructure and detection engineering domains.

• Professional Experience:
• At least 5 years of professional experience in a DevOps, Security Engineering, or Detection Engineering role maintaining relevant production infrastructure.
• Technical Proficiency:
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, ELBs, Transit Gateway, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, Code/Build/Pipeline/Deploy, etc.
• Strong working knowledge of Terraform or similar tools, AWS CLI/SDK, Boto.
• Extensive experience with SIEM content engineering, data transformation, and log onboarding.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc.
• Proficiency integrating systems via API and their respective authentication mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and troubleshooting techniques for bare metal and containerized workloads.
• Experience with best practice build pipelines, including Git/GitHub.

• Experience with EDR tools, such as CrowdStrike Falcon and Sentinel One.
• Experience with SOAR playbook building and automation, such as Tracecat and Chronicle SecOps.
• Experience with Cribl Stream.
• Familiarity with Cloud Security Posture Management, such as Crowdstrike and Wiz.

SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime. Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics and AI to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeover, detect insider threats, safeguard employee and consumer identities, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. SpyCloud's data from breaches, malware-infected devices, and successful phishes also powers many popular dark web monitoring and identity theft protection offerings. Customers include seven of the Fortune 10, along with hundreds of global enterprises, mid-sized companies, and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, SpyCloud is home to more than 200 cybersecurity experts whose mission is to protect businesses and consumers from the stolen identity data criminals are using to target them now.

To learn more and see insights on your company’s exposed data, visit spycloud.com.

Our mission is to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. Together with our customers and partners, we aim to end criminals’ ability to profit from stolen information.

SpyCloud is a place for innovative, collaborative, and problem-solvers to thrive. Individually, we’re amazing, but together, we’re unstoppable. We celebrate diversity and various perspectives and aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. SpyCloud complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

SpyCloud expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment. Improper interference with the ability of SpyCloud's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. SpyCloud shares the right to work and participates in the E-Verify program in all locations.

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Our culture is something really special. We’re all driven to disrupt the cybercriminal economy as we keep customer accounts safe from compromise. We support a truly worthy and serious mission, but we have fun doing it together. If you are driven, inventive, and collaborative, you’ll fit right in.

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