Staff Threat Detection Engineer
Chainalysisabout 4 hours ago
Remote, United States
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$175k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end roadmap for corporate threat detection.
- Design and maintain scalable detection logic across SIEM, EDR, and cloud logging platforms.
- Plan and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunting campaigns.
- Lead threat assessments and design reviews for new technology onboarding.
- Partner with Incident Response to refine alert quality and automate triage playbooks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the DaRE team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in detection engineering, SOC, or incident response at scale.
- Deep expertise in building and tuning detections within SIEM, EDR, and log analytics platforms.
- Advanced proficiency in writing complex detection queries (KQL, SPL, SQL).
- Demonstrated experience detecting modern attacker TTPs across endpoint, identity, and cloud environments.
- Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation and enrichment.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional security initiatives with IT and Engineering stakeholders.
Tech Stack
AWSBashGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQL
Categories
Security