- Arlington, Virginia, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- $122K–$253K per year
- 10+ years
Senior Detection Engineer develops, validates, deploys, and tunes detection logic supporting proactive threat hunting across federal and critical infrastructure environments.
Compensation
The salary associated with this position ($122,000-$253,000) is commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications, years of relevant experience, and demonstrated level of expertise.
Responsibilities
- Develop and test hypotheses to uncover persistence, privilege escalation, credential access, lateral movement, command and control, and defense evasion.
- Build behavioral analytics, correlation rules, signatures, and queries using endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and application telemetry.
- Convert validated hunt methods, incident findings, and exercise results into reusable detections.
- Test detections against representative malicious and benign activity using historical telemetry, controlled simulations, and purple team exercises.
- Analyze false positives, false negatives, alert volume, thresholds, exclusions, and environmental baselines.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field