Senior Detection & Response Engineer
Remote
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 138K - 201K
Expel
Expel is a recognized, leading managed detection and response provider with an MTTR of 23-minutes.All right, close your eyes. Good. Now, I want you to picture the following person. This person has a real passion for detection. This person eats their Wheaties, with a side of freshly toasted attacker dreams of living off the land or sky (ahem, cloud). As a defender, they think it’s cute that the attacker has the impression they can get by a layered defense by not dropping any binaries and just using PowerShell, WMI, VBScript or the new hotness … and get away with it.
Please keep your eyes closed, we aren’t done visualizing. Next imagine this person is fascinated by engineering discipline. This person wishes unit tests for detections were as simple as importing pytest. They have a deep appreciation for what a great engineer can do with a hard problem. But they’re also someone who loves to solve hard engineering problems themselves, usually at the intersection of detection and response automation to make their lives, and their co-workers lives, a little easier.
Finally, this person we’ve been picturing thrives by working with others. They might eat breakfast and destroy the dreams of attackers, but they genuinely love working together on a problem. They are someone who has worked on a team to investigate and respond to alerts generated by a variety of signals. They know that true scale comes from enabling others.
Now open your eyes. First, I hope your eyes are open and you’re not someone who just blindly does what they’re told. Besides, how else could you have caught all the significant bits? Did you end up picturing yourself?
At Expel we’re taking a new approach to managed security. We spend our time trying to discover ways to keep our customers safe and our security analysts happy. We’re trying to meet our customers where they are—understanding a vast number of attacker tactics, security vendor capabilities, and customer requirements. We believe innovating while handling the combinatorial explosion represents a captivating problem. If you agree, we may have the job for you!
What Expel can do for you
- Place you into the middle of a fast-growing cybersecurity company with the most enthusiastic customers you’ve ever seen—a welcome surprise in the MSSP/MDR market.
- Give you an opportunity to collaboratively drive a significant security capability of the business
- Enable you to learn from analysts, data scientists, engineers, and responders responsible for various components of Expel’s service and technology
- Facilitate ways to harness event signal from cloud service providers
- Provide an entertaining small and highly transparent startup environment
- Challenge you to push the boundaries of our security vision
- Provide access to popular Cloud, network, and SIEM technologies
What you can do for Expel
- Ensure our customers get maximum value from their security investments
- Design new detections to ensure our customers are protected from phishing attacks
- Help ensure our analysts keep learning and doing more sophisticated security work
- Continuously improve our detection capability by crafting and iterating on new detection ideas
- Continuously reevaluate, redefine, extend, and refactor data sources and workflows as needed
- Instill a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement within the analyst corps
What you should bring with you
- Strong understanding of Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems and command line tools.
- Knowledge of networking basics, such as TCP/IP and OSI model.
- Expert knowledge and observations of attack vectors, threat tactics, and attacker techniques.
- Cursory understanding of common Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and available security signal
- 3+ years of experience working with different technologies writing detections to find malicious behaviors
- Intermediate knowledge of phishing tactics and techniques
- Intermediate proficiency with Python, Go or other object oriented programming
- Familiarity with enterprise security applications.
Work Location
Our headquarters is in Herndon, Virginia. However, we realize that while there is a benefit to in-person interaction, good people don’t all live in Northern Virginia. Remote work is an option for this role.
Additional Notes
Pay range: $138,800 USD to $201,00 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.
We believe in paying transparently and equitably. Your salary will ultimately be based on factors such as your experience, skills, team equity, and market data. You’ll also be eligible for unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage), work location flexibility, up to 24 weeks of parental leave, and really excellent health benefits.
We’re only hiring those authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor immigration visas.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
We’ll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let us know if you need accommodation of any kind.
Tags: Automation Cloud Linux MacOS PowerShell Python SaaS SIEM TCP/IP Windows
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Health care Parental leave Salary bonus Startup environment Unlimited paid time off
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