Senior Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote US

Salary: $150,000–$170,000 base plus bonus and equity

Company

hirify.global builds cybersecurity technology backed by a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center to protect businesses and service providers from cyber threats.

What you will do

• Create, test, monitor, tune, promote, and retire detection rules across ITDR, SIEM, EDR, Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts across telemetry from millions of endpoints to identify stealthy attacker techniques.
• Translate threat intelligence, IOCs, TTPs, and investigation findings into detections through Git-based workflows.
• Build hunting dashboards and queries, review ambiguous attacker activity, and escalate likely intrusions for deeper investigation.
• Collaborate with engineering, the SOC, and adjacent teams to maintain a scalable, high-fidelity detection portfolio.
• Contribute findings to community projects and create technical content such as blogs, videos, podcasts, and webinars.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, SOC, MDR, or incident response.
• Intermediate knowledge of Windows internals and working knowledge of Linux, macOS, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Google Workspace.
• Experience developing, testing, tuning, and documenting detections or analytics from threat intelligence, hypotheses, or investigations.
• Familiarity with Sigma, Suricata, Snort, YARA, KQL, EQL, ES|QL, or Splunk SPL.
• Understanding of adversary tradecraft, including persistence, privilege escalation, defense impairment, lateral movement, discovery, and collection.
• Ability to validate AI-generated outputs and communicate findings through clear written reports.

Nice to have

• Intermediate knowledge of Linux and macOS internals.
• Experience with OSquery, Velociraptor, or EDR/MDR/XDR platforms.
• Experience with endpoint forensic tools such as EZ Tools, RegRipper, Hayabusa, or Chainsaw.
• Intermediate malware analysis skills.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
• Stock options for all full-time employees.
• Home office reimbursement, monthly digital reimbursement, education assistance, and access to BetterUp coaching.