Senior Security Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior Security Software Engineer: Building and optimizing scalable detection systems and response automation for cloud infrastructure and applications with an accent on large-scale log analysis and behavioral signals. Focus on leading incident response, proactive threat hunting, and contributing to production security codebases.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, US

Salary: $196,000–$220,500 USD

Company

hirify.global is a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform focused on enhancing friendships around games and shared interests for over 200 million people monthly.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable detection systems across cloud infrastructure, applications, and enterprise systems using large-scale log analysis.
• Develop tooling and workflows to automate incident response, reducing mean time to detection and response.
• Lead security incidents from initial triage through root cause analysis and remediation as a subject matter expert.
• Partner with internal teams to identify new telemetry sources, improve log coverage, and architect observability.
• Proactively hunt for malicious activity using threat intelligence and behavioral analysis, converting findings into production detections.
• Contribute to the production codebase, deploying detection logic and automation tooling.
• Mentor the embedded response team on investigative techniques, detection engineering principles, and incident handling.

Requirements

• 3+ years in Detection and Response as a senior individual contributor, with demonstrated experience building security tooling.
• 3+ years programming experience in Python or a similar language, writing production code.
• Strong experience with cloud security monitoring and investigations.
• Experience in building detections from large datasets and automating incident response processes.
• Deep knowledge of attacker TTPs, malware analysis, and threat hunting methodologies.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and/or serverless technologies.
• Familiarity with distributed systems observability and log analysis at scale.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Panther SIEM.
• Background in BeyondCorp / Zero-trust environments.
• Experience with Cloudflare security tooling.
• Contributions to open-source security projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a team uniquely important to the future of gaming, helping people deepen friendships around shared interests.
• Work within an engineering-focused team that builds scalable detection systems and automates response workflows.
• hirify.global is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
• Contribute to a platform trusted by millions to keep communications secure and private.