Senior Security Engineer, Operations (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States. The role requires either U.S. person status under ITAR or eligibility for a federally issued export-control license.

Salary: $150,000–$190,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global Corporation develops high-power satellite platforms for commercial and U.S. government missions from low Earth orbit to deep space.

What you will do

• Own corporate security detection and response from alert triage and investigation through containment, remediation, and post-incident follow-up.
• Administer and mature the SIEM by onboarding and normalizing log sources, enriching telemetry, tuning rules, and managing platform health, retention, and cost.
• Build and maintain MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection content using detection-as-code, version control, peer review, and automated testing.
• Lead incident response, coordinate stakeholders, produce root-cause analysis, and maintain incident timelines and follow-through.
• Develop SOAR, scripting, and vendor-API automation; conduct threat hunts, adversary emulation, and purple-team exercises.
• Perform host, network, and cloud forensics and partner with IT, infrastructure, HR, and Legal on phishing, business email compromise, credential abuse, insider risk, and control hardening.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security operations, detection and response, or incident response.
• Hands-on experience administering and tuning SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Panther, or Chronicle.
• Experience leading security incidents end to end and working with attacker TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, endpoint, identity, network, SaaS, and cloud telemetry.
• 2+ years of development experience in a modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or Rust for security automation, or a relevant bachelor’s degree in security, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline.
• Knowledge of operating systems, networking, cloud and SaaS platforms, security practices, and large-scale log analysis.
• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export-control license.

Nice to have

• Detection and response certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, GCDA, or OSCP.
• Experience with detection-as-code pipelines, security data lakes, security telemetry ETL, or cloud detection and response in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, or protecting aerospace, defense, manufacturing, OT, mission, or ground-segment environments.
• Experience in a defense, aerospace, or ITAR-regulated environment and contributions to the security community.

Culture & Benefits

• Participation in an on-call rotation, including occasional after-hours and weekend security escalations.
• Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance and paid parental leave.
• Equity in the company.