Senior Security Engineer

Dropzone AI

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Security Engineer will own investigation quality and be primarily responsible for ensuring that our AI SOC Analyst is generating accurate, timely reports. This role is pivotal in continuing to maintain and expand our investigation quality lead over the competition.

Requirements

6+ years in software development or security engineering
Strong experience writing production Python code
Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward

Responsibilities

Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs.
Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements.
Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation