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Senior Security Engineer
Company | Obsidian Security |
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Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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Salary | $149000 – $208000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in security research, threat detection, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, attack techniques (MITRE ATT&CK), and threat actor methodologies.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, or other languages.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for uncovering security threats.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to frame security objectives to a variety of audiences
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, complex technical environment.
Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth security research to identify and analyze new threats, attack techniques, and adversarial behaviors.
- Develop advanced threat detection logic and contribute to improving security analytics and response mechanisms.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate research-driven insights and improve the detection pipeline.
- Work with threat intelligence sources and industry peers to stay ahead of adversary tactics and techniques.
- Contribute to security blogs, whitepapers, and conference presentations to share research findings with the community.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in penetration testing and red teaming against complex systems.
- Familiarity across multiple domains: deep understanding of security engineering, network and system security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, and devices and application security.
- Experience with log analysis, anomaly detection, and behavioral analytics for security event monitoring.
- Experience in Security Data Engineering with streaming pipelines: You’ve built production-grade ETL data processing pipelines end to end using Kafka / PubSub, Spark / Flink, Athena / BigQuery, or similar.