Cboe Global Markets
Sr. Detection Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$2,366 more — $133,266 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $133,266 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer Occupations, All Other" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- At Cboe, w e inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters.
- We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy.
- Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining internal tooling that simulates adversary behavior on demand, making detection testing repeatable rather than manual
- Building and operating sandbox and detonation infrastructure, including disposable, instrumented environments for exploit triage, malware analysis, and safe technique development
- Supporting Incident Response during complex investigations with concrete attacker tradecraft insight, and closing the loop by building detections for what the investigation surfaces
- As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.
- We're building inclusive ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we've earned as a global market leader.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on experience with atomic testing frameworks or continuous control validation at scale
Skills
- The work spans endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and application telemetry.
Compensation
- Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Benefits
- Our Associate Resour ce Groups champion diversity, equity and inclusion, giv ing associates a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.
- This role authors the rules, then executes the techniques those rules are meant to catch, building the tooling, sandboxes, and reusable test content required to demonstrate coverage rather than assume it.
- Building reusable validation packages and automated regression testing so coverage is re-verified continuously and after every agent, platform, or configuration change
Company info
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
Equal opportunity
- We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our associates' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Cboe Global Markets's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.