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Senior Principal Engineer - Security & Detections

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters💼 Full-time💰 $183,600–$183,600🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Analyze multi-stage attack behavior sequences and translate complex threat patterns into highly deterministic signatures for network defense.

Role type

Senior Principal Security & Detection Engineer

Builds

High-performance detection signatures and automated testing pipelines for inline engines

Domain

Cybersecurity, Threat Detection, Network Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

signature development, evasion defense, detection-as-code, threat modeling, automated regression testing, false positive tuning, version pinning, dependency management

Preferred skills

AI security frameworks, OWASP LLM frameworks, Python scripting, Regex, MITRE ATT&CK framework

Technologies

Python, Regex, inline engines, automated testing pipelines

Responsibilities

Analyze complex attack sequences to create precise signatures; Develop and maintain high-performance signatures for inline enforcement; Own the signature lifecycle from research to deprecation; Drive continuous false positive tuning; Implement version pinning strategies; Partner with ML teams to integrate behavioral signatures.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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