Senior MSIAM SOC Engineer (Unit 42)

Location: Remote, associated with Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Annual base salary: $134,600–$217,800

Company

Cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital environments through innovative security technologies and threat intelligence.

What you will do

• Continuously refine correlation rules and ensure detection logic meets performance, accuracy, and operational relevance standards.
• Translate Unit 42 threat intelligence research and emerging adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures into actionable detection logic.
• Design sophisticated automation playbooks to address emerging security challenges and optimize operational workflows.
• Architect the end-to-end security lifecycle in Cortex XSIAM, connecting data ingestion, detection engineering, and response automation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Senior SOC, Detection Engineering, or Security Architecture role.
• Experience using SIEMs, firewalls, EDR, sandboxes, and SOAR platforms.
• Mastery of the detection engineering lifecycle, including rule testing frameworks, soft-deployment strategies, and continuous tuning.
• Experience reviewing and quality-assuring detection logic created by others and providing constructive optimization feedback.
• Experience designing complex automation playbooks in Cortex XSOAR or similar platforms based on anticipated threat vectors.
• Strong background in incident response and threat hunting, including translating threat intelligence into actionable defense mechanisms.
• Software development experience with strong proficiency in Python for security automation.
• Exceptional consultative and communication skills, including the ability to guide enterprise customers through complex architecture and workflow decisions.

Nice to have

• Previous experience with Cortex XSIAM.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role within a hybrid, geographically distributed collaboration environment.
• Culture emphasizing trust, accountability, collaboration, execution, integrity, inclusion, and shared success.
• Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base salary.
• Employee benefits are available according to the company benefits program.