InfoSec - Principal Detection Engineer

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience designing, implementing, and performing monitoring and detection in a complex, global environment
• Demonstrated ability to think innovatively about solving critical security problems
• Curiosity for research and uncovering the unknown about cyber behavior
• Experience analyzing threat profiles and indicators to develop unique techniques detecting threat actor activity
• A passion for applying data and behavioral sciences to the world of information security
• Experience with scripting and coding is a plus, especially in Python

What You Will Be Doing

• Build detections to identify malicious activity leveraging the Elastic Security solution
• Build new detection mechanisms beyond what is provided by Elastic Stack solutions to identify malicious and other potentially undesired activities and behaviors
• Document detections and initial response actions as code so that response analysts have a playbook
• Continually review and tune existing detections for appropriateness, coverage, and to eliminate noise
• Identify additional log sources that would close visibility gaps and work with security engineering to onboard those log sources
• Identify areas for workflow automation, context enrichment, and other enhancements to the alerting workflow leveraging our SOAR platform or Elastic Stack native capabilities
• Partner with the product team on new features, bug fixes, and detection ideas to transfer ideas into features
• Provide feedback and testing of pre-release versions of the Elastic Stack to identify potential bugs at scale before they are released to our customers
• Share with our community how we leverage the Elastic Stack to keep Elastic safe through blog posts, webinars, meetups, and other opportunities
• Mentor and coach other team members in Information Security on best practices in the industry

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave