Dropzone AI

Dropzone AI

Detection Engineering Lead

Remote - US · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 1 day ago
AWSAzureLinuxMachine LearningLLMsCybersecuritySIEMMicrosoft SentinelMicrosoft DefenderDetection EngineeringProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • We're looking for a highly experienced Senior / Principal Detection Engineer to help shape the future of AI-driven security operations.
  • This is a senior-to-principal level role for an individual who combines deep detection engineering expertise with a passion for innovation, customer impact, and advancing the state of security operations.
  • You will work closely with product management and engineering teams to ensure our AI detection engineer can draft new detection contents and improve existing detection rules as well as the best detection engineer on the planet.

Responsibilities

  • Prototype, validate, and continuously improve an AI agent that programmatically generates detection content across diverse security environments.
  • Partner with engineering teams to encode expert detection knowledge into our product.
  • Design scoring rubrics on AI generated detection content for SIEM, EDR, NDR, cloud, identity, and SaaS security platforms.
  • Develop novel approaches for AI-assisted threat detection.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in detection engineering.
  • Deep expertise with two or more major SIEM platforms (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, Elastic, Chronicle, Sumo Logic, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of endpoint, cloud, identity, network, and SaaS telemetry.
  • Strong understanding of modern attacker tradecraft across Windows, Linux, cloud, identity, and SaaS environments.
  • Experience leading detection engineering programs at large complex environments.
  • Expertise with EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne, or Palo Alto Cortex XDR.
  • Experience with cloud security platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Experience contributing to open-source detection content (Sigma, YARA, Suricata, Zeek, etc.).

Compensation

  • In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses.
  • If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience.
  • In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer.
  • Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth.
  • In addition, all compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we believe in rewarding long term value creation.
  • The pay range for this role is:

Benefits

  • We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.

Company info

  • About Dropzone AI
  • Dropzone's mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists.
  • Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, and AI augmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground.
  • We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.
  • Powered by Gen AI advancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects.
  • We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and SaaS product development.
  • Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using Gen AI to transform cyber defense.
  • Learn more at www.dropzone.ai.
  • This is not a service or consulting role and you will not be performing hands-on detection engineering service to our customers.
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