Staff Detection Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Warsaw, Poland innovation hub; hybrid office-centric model

Salary: 40,000–45,000 PLN gross per month, plus potential equity and benefits

Company

Asana provides a human and AI collaboration platform used by teams worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-fidelity detections across AWS, GCP, identity providers, SaaS environments, endpoints, and software supply chains.
• Own the Panther detection-as-code pipeline, including rule structure, unit and integration testing, code review standards, and CI/CD deployment.
• Map coverage gaps against MITRE ATT&CK and the company threat model, prioritizing relevant attack techniques.
• Onboard and normalize telemetry sources and ensure logs are complete, available, and queryable.
• Measure alert precision, time-to-triage, and false-positive rates while tuning or retiring low-value detections.
• Validate detections through purple-team exercises, atomic tests, adversary emulation, incident analysis, and SOAR enrichment and automation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in detection engineering, security operations, or threat hunting.
• Strong Python skills and practical experience with Git workflows, pull-request reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Deep experience with detection-as-code, SIEM platforms, query languages, log schemas, and correlation.
• Strong understanding of AWS and GCP audit logs, Okta system logs, SaaS audit APIs, endpoint telemetry, and attacker TTPs.
• Experience applying MITRE ATT&CK to drive detection coverage decisions and working with EDR tools such as CrowdStrike or SentinelOne.
• Employment is offered under a Polish Contract of Employment (UoP).

Nice to have

• Experience detecting software supply-chain and CI/CD threats across build systems and developer ecosystems.
• Experience with Atomic Red Team, Caldera, purple-team exercises, or adversary emulation.
• Security data engineering experience with log pipelines, schema design, or high-volume telemetry cost optimization.
• Go, Bash, or JavaScript/TypeScript experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid, office-centric work model with office catering on working days.
• Base salary, RSUs, vacation allowance, and career growth budget.
• Health insurance with dental and travel coverage, group life insurance, and mental health support.
• Home office setup budget, gym or fitness card, and MacBook with accessories.
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming support.