Senior Security Operations Engineer
Core
Build and maintain production-ready security checks and detection content to identify vulnerabilities, malware, and emerging attack patterns with high accuracy. (via careerplan.io/jobs/5371063d-b4bc-4f38-a0ef-700998a806fc-senior-security-operations-engineer-at-jobgether)
Role type
Senior Security Operations Engineer (Detection Engineering)
Builds
Production security detection rules, attack-chain templates, and evaluation harnesses for cloud-native and CI/CD environments
Domain
Application Security / Offensive Security / AI Security
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Offensive security research, detection engineering, static analysis, web application penetration testing, vulnerability classification, algorithm design (ASTs), testing framework development
Preferred skills
OpenGrep/Semgrep, YARA, LLM security, prompt engineering, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps
Technologies
OpenGrep, JavaScript, Python, Burp Suite, sqlmap, nmap, ffuf, HTTP, GraphQL, REST
Responsibilities
Develop new detection rules using OpenGrep to identify novel malware and vulnerability patterns; Research vulnerability classes and translate findings into production detections; Create attack-chain templates combining lower-severity findings; Build evaluation harnesses and benchmarks to measure detection accuracy and false-positive rates; Integrate detection and validation into cloud-native and CI/CD environments; Collaborate with engineering and AI/ML teams to deploy detection content
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
