Senior Security Engineer - Detection Engineering

Location: Hybrid near hirify.global offices in New York, San Francisco, or Denver; remote candidates may be considered within the US. Core business hours availability, on-call rotation, and role-related travel may be required.

Salary: $167,790–$201,348 annually, with potential equity and discretionary bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global provides a programmable edge cloud platform that processes, serves, and secures customer applications close to end users.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain detections and analytics for cloud, container, corporate, and edge environments.
• Lead complex security investigations by analyzing logs and telemetry, determining root cause, containing incidents, and collecting forensic artifacts.
• Build AI agents and automations for detection development, alert triage, telemetry enrichment, and incident response.
• Research, evaluate, implement, and maintain EDR, SOAR, SIEM, and other security tools.
• Conduct threat hunts to identify previously unknown malicious activity.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience integrating AI tools, LLMs, and automated agents into security operations workflows.
• Experience developing, testing, and tuning detections using detections-as-code, version control, and CI/CD.
• Strong experience leading security incident investigations, including log analysis, real-time containment, and forensic artifact collection.
• Strong coding skills in Python or another general-purpose language, with experience building detection and response automations.
• Knowledge of AWS or GCP, Linux, containers such as Kubernetes, and native cloud logging and security tooling.
• Understanding of attacker tactics and techniques, with experience in threat hunting or threat modeling.

Nice to have

• Experience with CDNs, edge cloud platforms, or hirify.global products and services.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable ETL processes and security telemetry data pipelines.
• Experience deploying AI agents in production for threat detection, alert enrichment, and automated response.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with flexibility to split time between the office and home.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance beginning on the first day of employment.
• Flexible vacation policy, up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave, paid local holidays, and company wellness days.
• 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Family planning support, mental health resources, Employee Assistance Program, and life, disability, and accident insurance.