Senior Detection Engineer
Senseon, United Kingdom
Job Description
The role and team:
Senseon’s product analyses data from a variety of sources to detect threats affecting our customers. Our detection and response components consist of a cross-platform endpoint agent, network monitoring system, external cloud data collection capability and software analytics framework. These components work together to collect and analyse data from across our customers’ estates, aiming to find and stop threats in real-time.
In a nutshell: you will provide direction and key technical support for the development of Senseon’s threat analytics.
What you'll do:
Keeping our customers safe means understanding the threats they face and how best to stop them using our powerful platform and data. You will be responsible for:
- Helping the development team prioritise its analysis automation efforts based on a detailed understanding of prevailing malicious actors and techniques
- Working closely with developers to design and implement advanced detection components, including producing detailed briefs about threats and detection approaches, and prototyping detections
- Simulating, analysing and documenting threats in our development lab to understand both how our product can be used to detect them, and how our product can be improved
- Using our product to perform advanced manual analysis to inform our approach to detecting particular activity
Requirements
What you'll need:
- Excellent communication, both written and verbal
- The ability to understand, apply and explain complex threat techniques
- Experience using Linux platforms
- Deep technical security practice expertise in at least one of the following areas, and have at least some experience in two others:
- Reverse engineering
- Defensive analysis
- Incident response
- Vulnerability research
- Computer forensics
- Some programming experience, ideally in one of the following areas:
- C++ on Linux, Windows or Mac
- Data analysis using Python
- Data analysis using SQL
- Implementing statistical analysis techniques for threat detection
- Experience coaching more junior members of your team
About Us:
At Senseon, our mission is to fix cybersecurity. We are committed to providing our customers with the most comprehensive defence against cybersecurity threats; for every user and asset in an organisation, wherever the location.
Since our founding three years ago, we've been working hard to make a difference in our industry, receiving great recognition for our work, and we're now starting to scale. We are looking for innovative and driven individuals who want to make an impact and enhance our momentum.