
Senior Security Engineer
Dropzone AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $217,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs.
- Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
- Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements.
- Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
- Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
Requirements
- 6+ years in software development or security engineering
- Strong experience writing production Python code
- Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
- Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
- Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonsecurity toolingdetection and responsethreat huntinginvestigation techniquesproduction codearchitectural decisionsbug fixingintegration with security toolsinvestigation flows
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationinfluenceprioritizationexecutionambiguity management