Senior Threat Research Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Company

hirify.global Security provides a SaaS security platform that helps organizations reduce risk, detect and respond to threats, and prevent breaches across business applications such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce.

What you will do

• Establish the detection engineering function in Taiwan, including technical direction, operating standards, and hiring plans.
• Research cloud, identity, and SaaS threats and translate attacker behavior into threat models and actionable detection opportunities.
• Design, author, test, maintain, and release detection rules and behavioral detection models.
• Define telemetry, enrichment, correlation, and historical context requirements while partnering with platform and data engineering on scalable production pipelines.
• Build frameworks for detection testing, simulation, coverage measurement, versioning, release management, and ongoing tuning.
• Investigate false positives and false negatives, improve detection quality, and collaborate with Security Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success.

Requirements

• Significant experience in detection engineering, threat research, security analytics, incident response, threat hunting, or a related security discipline.
• Experience leading security research or detection initiatives and mentoring practitioners.
• Strong knowledge of attacker behavior, identity threats, cloud security, and enterprise SaaS environments.
• Experience developing production detections with rules, queries, correlations, statistical methods, or behavioral models.
• Experience analyzing large security datasets, including audit events, authentication activity, identity data, application logs, or cloud telemetry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to collaborate across regions, time zones, functions, and cultures.

Nice to have

• Experience with identity security, SaaS security, cloud detection and response, SIEM, UEBA, EDR, or XDR products.
• Familiarity with identity-based attacks, MITRE ATT&CK, detection-as-code, rule languages, detection engines, or automated validation frameworks.
• Experience applying machine learning, anomaly detection, or generative AI to security problems.
• Experience investigating real-world intrusions, working with incident response teams, or building detection engineering teams.
• Experience working in Taiwan or with globally distributed APAC teams; Mandarin proficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborate with teams across Taiwan, the US, the UK, and Australia to build a unified global detection program.
• Work on a SaaS security platform protecting more than 200 organizations across multiple regions.
• Contribute to a disciplined detection lifecycle covering research, development, validation, deployment, monitoring, tuning, and retirement.
• Focus on explainable, actionable security findings and measurable customer impact.