Engineering Manager I, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (EMEA)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager I, Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting (EMEA): Lead a team of security engineers responsible for developing high-fidelity detection content across a diverse set of log integrations, with an accent on cloud-native data. Focus on driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of detection capabilities to identify and respond to emerging threats across hirify.global’s infrastructure.

Location: Lisbon, Portugal. Hybrid workplace.

Company

hirify.global is a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of detection engineers, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance feedback.
• Define and drive the detection engineering lifecycle to identify threats across hirify.global’s infrastructure and manage a scalable, prioritized detection backlog.
• Build and lead a metrics-driven detection engineering program, defining clear success measures and holding the team accountable to measurable security outcomes.
• Partner with Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams during security incidents, guiding threat hunting strategies, and owning the rapid deployment of detections to close gaps and support response and containment.
• Oversee the research and operationalization of log telemetry from the hirify.global Logs platform into actionable security detections.
• Work with leadership to set quarterly OKRs that advance our detection coverage across the AI, Cloud, Software Supply Chain, Endpoint, Network, and SaaS attack surfaces.

Requirements

• You have 2+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers in detection engineering, threat hunting, security operations, cloud security, or related operational security domains.
• You’ve worked with at least one public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, or Terraform.
• You have a strong understanding of cloud-native threat actor TTPs and corresponding defensive controls and actively stay up to date with new advancements in detection engineering.
• You are comfortable reviewing or contributing to code and tooling development for detection and threat hunting use cases using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• You bring a track record of driving cross-functional collaboration and delivering measurable security outcomes in complex environments.
• Motivating, kind and humble people leader who focuses on growth and happiness for your team.

Nice to have

• You’ve partnered with threat intelligence teams to translate threat research into scalable detection strategies.
• You have led threat hunts to identify novel threat activity and turn that into new detections and close visibility gaps.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous and competitive benefits package.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding.
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program.
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.