Senior Detection Engineer (SIEM / Security Observability)

About the job

Keeper Security is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to advance detection engineering, SIEM operations, and security telemetry across a globally distributed, cloud-native environment. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL metro areas.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain detection and telemetry capabilities across Datadog, SentinelOne, and Wiz
• Develop, test, and tune high-fidelity detection rules aligned to real-world attack scenarios and adversary behaviors
• Continuously improve alert quality by reducing false positives, eliminating noise, and increasing detection accuracy
• Implement and mature detection-as-code practices for scalable, version-controlled, and testable rule management
• Define and enforce logging, telemetry, and instrumentation standards across cloud infrastructure, applications, endpoints, and identity systems
• Build and optimize log ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and retention pipelines
• Automate onboarding of new data sources and improve telemetry coverage across production and corporate environments
• Correlate signals across SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity, and security tooling to improve detection depth and investigation quality
• Partner with Security Operations to improve triage workflows, incident response readiness, and escalation quality
• Build dashboards, analytics, and reporting that support operational decision-making across Security, SRE, and Engineering
• Map and maintain detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK and help identify visibility gaps
• Perform detection gap assessments and evolve use cases based on threat intelligence, threat hunting, and emerging risks
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, product, and compliance teams to strengthen secure logging and observability patterns throughout the software development lifecycle

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, security engineering, or security observability
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, security analytics, or observability platforms, such as Datadog, SentinelOne, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, or similar tools
• Experience building, tuning, and maintaining detection rules, correlation logic, and alerting workflows
• Strong understanding of security telemetry across cloud, endpoint, identity, and application environments
• Experience with log parsing, normalization, enrichment, and pipeline management
• Strong knowledge of cloud environments, with AWS preferred
• Proficiency in scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar
• Solid understanding of modern detection strategies, attacker behaviors, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Security Operations, Engineering, Infrastructure, and SRE teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Datadog Cloud SIEM, SentinelOne, Wiz, or similar modern security platforms
• Experience with observability concepts including logs, metrics, traces, and instrumentation
• Experience with SOAR, workflow automation, or response orchestration
• Familiarity with Sigma or other detection-as-code frameworks
• Experience in high-scale SaaS, cloud-native, or security product environments
• Familiarity with zero-trust architectures, identity-centric security, and privileged access management

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life
• Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401K (Roth/Traditional)
• A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)
• Above market annual bonuses

Classification

Exempt

Privacy Notice

This notice explains how Keeper Security processes your personal data during recruitment. Depending on the role and location, the Controller of personal data (the organization responsible for determining why and how personal data is processed) will be Keeper Security Inc. (US), Keeper Security EMEA Ltd. (Ireland), or Keeper Security APAC K.K (Japan).

1. Data We Collect

• Information You provide:
• - Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter
• - Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility
• - Application responses and uploaded documents
• Information We generate:
• - Interview notes, assessments, communications
• - Scheduling information
• Information From Others:
• - Recruiter/referral information who submit your profile
• - References (with your consent, before final offer)
• - Public professional profiles
• - Background verification (post offer)
• Voluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information
• - We may ask you to voluntarily provide diversity information including race/ethnicity, gender, disability status and veteran status (US). Providing this information is optional and Keeper collects this data in order to comply with EEOC and similar requirements

2. How We Use Your Data

• Assess your application and suitability
• Manage interviews and recruitment workflow
• Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)
• Comply with employment law obligations

3. Legal Basis

• Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)
• Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)
• Legal and regulatory compliance obligations; explicit consent where required

4. Who We Share Information With

• Internal:
• - HR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration
• *Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.
• Third Parties:
• Service providers who assist with:
• - Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers
• - Background verification vendors (post offer)
• - Recruitment agencies (where applicable)
• - Tools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data

5. International Transfers

• Your data may be accessed by Keeper entities globally as needed for the purposes of hiring and decision making. We protect any such data transfer between Keeper entities using appropriate safeguards under applicable data protection laws.

6. Security

• We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.

7. Retention

• We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it.
• Exceptions:
• - You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)
• - You're hired (transfers to employee records)

8. Your Rights

• You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:
• - Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements
• - Object to or restrict processing
• - Withdraw consent (where applicable)
• - Request data portability
• - Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority

9. Automated Decisions

• Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.

10. Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: privacy@keepersecurity.com

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