Director of Detection Engineering

TENEX.AI

Director of Detection Engineering leading team to drive threat detection strategy for cybersecurity startup. Overseeing a multi-site team to protect customer environments through innovative solutions.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeKansas City • Kansas, Montana • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage direct reports today plus a growing bench of senior detection engineers across multiple locations.
Drive threat coverage strategy and the full detection lifecycle — build, tune, retire — measured against frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
Lead detection content in customer QBRs, prospect calls, and internal executive meetings; translate technical depth into business outcomes.
Deliver executive reporting on coverage, false positive rates, MTTR, and threat-informed metrics.
Hire senior detection engineers, run performance and career development, and build the bench that scales with the customer base.
Set on-call coverage, cross-site handoffs, and the working model with SOC Analysts, SOC Engineering, and Threat Intelligence.
Define peer review, detection testing standards, and the metrics the team is measured on.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in detection engineering, security engineering, or SOC, with 4+ years leading teams.
People leadership track record — hiring senior ICs, scaling teams across multiple locations, performance management, and growing engineers into leaders.
Hands-on detection engineering depth — you've personally written, tuned, and retired detections at scale across SIEM, EDR, and cloud.
Customer-facing and executive-facing communication skills — track record presenting in QBRs, prospect calls, and exec staff meetings.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and benefits package
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

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Hard Skills & Tools

detection engineeringsecurity engineeringSIEMEDRclouddetection lifecycledetection contentmetricsperformance managementthreat coverage strategy

Soft Skills

people leadershipcommunication skillsteam scalingperformance managementcareer developmentcustomer-facingexecutive-facingtranslating technical depthbuilding teamscross-site collaboration