Senior Detection & Threat Engineer
Checkout.com2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Engineer high-fidelity threat detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments.
- Define detection standards, principles, and quality thresholds for Security Operations.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting based on attacker behavior rather than vendor alerts.
- Translate threat intelligence and incident learnings into durable, reusable detections.
- Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK and real-world attack paths.
- Reduce alert fatigue through logic refinement, correlation, and contextual enrichment.
- Advise and support high-severity security incidents and contribute to runbooks and escalation playbooks.
- Drive the transition of advanced detection capability into Cyber Security ownership.
Requirements
- Proven experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, or advanced SOC roles.
- Deep understanding of modern attacker tradecraft and intrusion techniques across the attack lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience building detection logic in modern SIEM platforms such as Sentinel.
- Proficiency with scripting and programming, such as Python and KQL, to build detection pipelines and automation.
- Experience operating beyond traditional SOC or MSSP models.
- Hands-on cloud detection experience across identity, control plane, and SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms and frameworks including PCI DSS, NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO27001, CIS Benchmarks, and MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud.
- Willingness to challenge poor detections, weak assumptions, and vanity metrics, with a pragmatic focus on precision and impact.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office.
- An environment emphasizing ownership, meaningful work, collaboration, accessibility, and professional growth.
About Checkout.com
Checkout.com builds a global payments platform for enterprise merchants, offering card acquiring, payment processing, issuing, and risk/fraud tools across 145+ currencies. It serves ecommerce and digital businesses and earns primarily through transaction and service fees, with direct integrations to schemes like Visa, Mastercard, and Amex. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the privately held company counts brands such as Spotify, eBay, Uber, Klarna, and Sony among its customers.