Sr. Detection Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; Flex/Hybrid

Salary: $130,900–$169,400 base salary annually, plus potential incentive compensation and long-term equity participation.

Company

hirify.global provides financial market infrastructure, trading, clearing, and investment solutions for market participants worldwide.

What you will do

• Write, tune, and maintain production detection logic across SIEM, EDR, identity, and cloud platforms.
• Validate detections by executing the techniques they target and confirming both attack coverage and benign-activity behavior.
• Build adversary-simulation tooling, reusable validation packages, automated regression tests, and coverage reporting.
• Build and operate sandbox and detonation infrastructure for exploit triage, malware analysis, and safe technique development.
• Evaluate exploit proof-of-concept code, analyze generated telemetry, and convert findings into detection and threat-hunting content.
• Support incident response and application/API security testing while translating findings into detection and remediation guidance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience with substantial detection-authoring experience.
• Strong command of at least one detection query language, such as KQL, Sigma, or YARA-L.
• Practical knowledge of attacker techniques across Windows, Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS, Azure, SaaS, and containerized workloads.
• Ability to analyze unfamiliar exploit or malware code and identify reliable observable artifacts.
• Experience with a tooling language such as Python, Go, C#, PowerShell, or Bash, plus virtualization, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship; visa sponsorship is not available. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

Nice to have

• Public detection content, tooling, or security research.
• Atomic testing frameworks, continuous control validation, or MITRE ATT&CK coverage analysis.
• AI engineering, agentic workflows, MCP integration, or LLM-application abuse testing.
• Reverse engineering, Windows internals, EDR telemetry, or evasion research.
• Financial-services or regulated-enterprise experience, mentoring, or internal training experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, and mental health benefits.
• Paid vacation, personal, sick, and community-service days.
• 401(k) match of up to 8% immediately upon hire, plus employee stock purchase options.
• Tuition assistance, parental leave, fertility benefits, fitness facilities, and charitable giving support.