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Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Petaling Jaya, my💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Research and build detection capabilities for malicious activity across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, identity, and autonomous vehicle/IoT platforms using detection-as-code.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (detection engineering)

Builds

High-fidelity detection rules, analytics, and automated response workflows for SIEM, EDR, and SOAR platforms

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, AI/ML Security, IoT Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Threat research and TTP analysis, SIEM/EDR/SOAR operations, Python or Go programming, SQL for large-scale log analysis, Cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), Detection-as-code practices, Incident response support

Preferred skills

Experience with AI/agent frameworks, Autonomous vehicle/IoT security, Purple teaming collaboration

Technologies

Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, SQL, KQL, Security Data Lake

Responsibilities

Research attacker TTPs and translate into detection opportunities, Build and deploy detection logic via CI/CD pipelines, Tune detection rules to reduce false positives and improve coverage, Support incident triage and emergency detection creation, Document detection logic and operational runbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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