1 day ago
Base Salary
$156k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, validate, tune, and retire enterprise detection content and correlation rules across environments.
- Build cyber defense capabilities including telemetry integrations, SOAR workflows, response playbooks, and agentic response patterns with human oversight.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using threat intelligence, adversary behaviors, and security telemetry, translating findings into improved detections and controls.
- Lead complex security investigations, escalations, containment, recovery, risk mitigation, root-cause analysis, and durable defensive improvements.
- Support red and purple team exercises, adversary emulation, detection validation, and defensive-gap simulations.
- Build scripts, API integrations, and automation to improve response consistency and reduce manual effort.
- Evaluate security telemetry, detection coverage, and cyber defense tooling while troubleshooting and improving visibility gaps.
- Execute cyber readiness activities including technical exercises, playbook validation, escalation testing, and readiness assessments.
- Partner with Information Security and IT, maintain technical documentation and procedures, and mentor junior engineers and analysts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 8–12 years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 5–7 years of equivalent industry experience, or a PhD with 2–4 years of experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own cyber defense solutions and complex technical initiatives.
- Experience with SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, NDR, identity and email telemetry, cloud security technologies, and enterprise networking fundamentals.
- Engineering experience with detection logic, automation, telemetry pipelines, API integrations, or security tooling using Python, PowerShell, SPL, KQL, SQL, or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of adversary behaviors, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics fundamentals, detection engineering, cyber threat intelligence, and MITRE ATT&CK.
- Experience applying automation, AI, or machine-learning capabilities to detection, investigation, or automated response with appropriate human oversight.
- Ability to lead complex investigations, collaborate across teams, mentor practitioners, and communicate technical findings and risk.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or equivalent security certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage plus wellness programs.
- Competitive compensation with performance incentives and advancement opportunities.
- Flexible work arrangements, unlimited paid time off, and remote home-office work; hybrid work may be available within commuting distance of a Dexcom site, with a Flex workplace option.
- In-house training, development programs, career mentorship, and opportunities to attend security conferences.
- Inclusive, diverse, collaborative, and purpose-driven work environment.
- Travel required is 0–5%.
About Dexcom
Dexcom designs and manufactures continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for people with diabetes, combining wearable sensors with transmitters, mobile apps, and cloud data services. It sells devices and disposable sensors through pharmacies, durable medical equipment channels, and healthcare providers, often covered by insurance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, Dexcom is a public company traded on NASDAQ (DXCM).