Senior Security Engineer Job at CyberSN, South San Francisco, CA

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  • CyberSN
  • South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About this Job

Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Contract to hire (With strong intention of converting to full time permanent) - Remote in the U.S. (Must reside in the US)

We're looking for a Security Detection Engineer. In this role , you will be responsible for the following:

  • Improve alerting and monitoring coverage; reduce noise and increase signal fidelity.
  • Advise on proactive security measures beyond standard policies and controls.
  • Conduct hands-on threat hunting and investigate potential threats, including dark web intelligence.
  • Manage and optimize the SIEM (Sumologic).
  • Build and customize advanced queries, dashboards, and behavior-based risk scoring.

Please Note: At this time, our client can only consider applications from U.S. Citizens and Green card holders. They are unable to offer visa sponsorship or work with C2C.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of security experience, with at ideally 2–3 years focused on security operations or monitoring.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise IT environments, systems, and user access processes.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM Sumologic with the ability to build dashboards, create custom queries, and manage detections across multiple systems.
  • Experience analyzing and improving alerting, reducing noise, and increasing signal fidelity.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts to support accurate detection; able to navigate IaC configurations.
  • Background in SecOps, threat detection, or hunting preferred.
  • Some Python scripting or programming experience.
  • Understanding of cloud security concepts and secure system design.
  • Knowledge of threat frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and attacker techniques.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder.

Why CyberSN?

CyberSN is the leading Cybersecurity Jobs and Career Marketplace. We're dedicated to helping cybersecurity professionals find jobs they love and assisting companies in building strong, diverse teams. From our innovative online matching platform to our full-service recruitment solutions, we provide the tools and expertise needed to maximize career success and team performance.

Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time, Contract work, Remote work,

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