We re looking for a Senior Detection Developer Cloud for IDR team to be part of making this happen.
A Senior Security Developer has a clear history of successful contribution to professional detection development projects. They are driven, curious, and results oriented. They are able to manage competing priorities as they relate to improving our existing codebase of detections and constantly challenge the status quo. With additional experience and exposure to advanced detection development patterns and projects, they are capable of becoming a Senior Security Developer within 2 years.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 or more years of professional experience as a Detection Developer with a focus on Cloud
- Experience consists of projects contributing in either Python or YAML (or any custom language)
- OS Specific Telemetry (Windows Security/Sysmon logs, Linux, Mac)
- Windows PowerShell Monitoring
- Cloud logs, email, Oauth, Identity related attack analysis
- SIEM Detections
- EDR detections/signatures
- Threat landscape awareness
- Development of anomaly and behavioural based detections
- Tuning and optimization of detections for all the above
- Pen test and other attack tool awareness and analysis is definite plus
- Professional certifications in Security and/or Cloud are desired (i.e. CISSP, GNFA, GCFA, GCFE, GREM).
More About the role
You ll be working as a detection developer on our Integration, Detection and Response Team, responsible for ensuring quality and scale of our detection base and presenting actionable detections to our Security Services teams and customers.
Some of your day-to-day responsibilities will be:
- Developing and maintaining Python and YAML-based detections, software, and systems.
- Research and develop expertise for various threat surfaces and telemetry available for them
- Propose coverage and efficacy improvements to the detection surface
- Work with team members to develop novel detections and continuously tune existing ones
- Build runbooks, reports and supporting material for detection surfaces
- Write and test clean, efficient, and reusable code in Python/YAML
- Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Debugging and fixing issues in existing Python codebases.
- Participate in the full software development life cycle, building well-designed, testable, efficient, secure code.
- Understand the product and how Security Services delivers the service.
- Develop professional expertise, apply company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
- Continuously learning and adopting best practices for code quality, software development methodologies, and programming principles to enhance coding skills and stay updated with industry advancements.
- We value a culture of sharing, so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon, teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus, some of these ideas do make it into our products.
About you
You re a talented detection developer who is passionate about securing our customers and cares deeply about ending cyber risk. You enjoy learning about various attack methods and tools. You are constantly adapting to emerging technologies, trends, and best practices. You will build productive internal/external working relationships to resolve mutual problems by collaborating on procedures or transactions, with a focus on providing standard professional advice and creating initial reports/analyses for review by experienced team professionals.
Here are some of the core technologies we use and teach across our detections teams:
- Python
- Sigma
- Wazuh
- Kibana
- Git
You are not required to be an expert in any of these, but you should be excited by the opportunity to learn new things and comfortable with coming up to speed quickly. Any experience with detection development for EPP/EDR and/or pen test is relevant and transferrable.
We value a culture of sharing, so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a department-wide Hackathon, teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus, some of these ideas do make it into our products.
