Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer

Responsibilities

• Intelligence Collection & Analysis: Proactively research, collect, and analyze threat intelligence from various sources (OSINT, commercial feeds, dark web, and internal security events) to understand the current and emerging threat landscape.
• Machine Learning and Data Science: Design, implement, and maintain detection use cases for the entire machine learning lifecycle (data ingestion, training, deployment, and inference).
• Threat Actor Profiling: Develop detailed profiles of relevant threat actors, their Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and identify potential impacts to the organization.
• Actionable Intelligence Dissemination: Produce and disseminate timely, relevant, and actionable intelligence reports and briefings for both technical security teams and executive leadership.
• IOC/IOA Management: Engineer the ingestion, enrichment, correlation, and contextualization of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Indicators of Attack (IOAs) into security platforms.
• Automated Defense Development: Design, develop, and implement robust automation workflows and playbooks (SOAR) to streamline security operations tasks, including incident triage, alert enrichment, vulnerability management, and threat response actions.
• Tool Integration & Optimization: Integrate diverse security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, Cloud Security Posture Management, vulnerability scanners, Threat Intelligence Platforms) through APIs and scripting (primarily Python) to create seamless, automated feedback loops.
• Process Improvement: Identify manual, repetitive, and time-consuming security processes and engineer scalable automation solutions to increase team efficiency and operational maturity.
• Incident Response Support: Provide threat context to support the Incident Response team during active security incidents.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Detection Engineers, Security Engineers, and Software Developers to embed security and intelligence-driven practices into the CI/CD pipeline and corporate infrastructure.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, or Security Automation role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation (e.g., Python).
• Experience with common tools used within Security Operations.
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence.
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence.
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators.
• Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, or Security Automation role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation (e.g., Python).
• Experience with common tools used within Security Operations.
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence.
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators.
• Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, or Security Automation role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation (e.g., Python).
• Experience with common tools used within Security Operations.
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence.
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators.

Qualifications

• Understanding of attacker Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs)
• Understanding of attack components
• Experience threat hunting in a complex network
• The ability to read an attack brief or vulnerability report and contextualize the associated risk
• Experience validating vulnerability reports and providing impact analysis
• Experience performing data gathering and analysis on perceived threats; generating additional contextual data that can be operationalized
• Experience with common tools used within Security Operations
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and provide clarity to complex situations
• Ability to work autonomously with a strong sense of urgency, ownership and self drive
• Ability to build partnerships and get results across many different stakeholders
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbal and written, to stakeholders regarding relative risk, urgency, and feedback
• Highly qualified candidates will have an understanding of nation state motivations and operational capabilities
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators
• Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, or Security Automation role
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation (e.g., Python)
• Security Concepts: Deep understanding of the cyber kill chain, threat actor TTPs, common attack vectors, networking protocols, and operating system internals
• Automation Expertise: Proven experience designing and implementing SOAR playbooks and integrating security tools via APIs
• Intelligence Tools: Experience working with commercial and open-source Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) and threat feeds
• Cloud Security: Familiarity with security services and automation in major cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Skills

• Understanding of attacker Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs)
• Understanding of attack components
• Experience threat hunting in a complex network
• The ability to read an attack brief or vulnerability report and contextualize the associated risk
• Experience validating vulnerability reports and providing impact analysis
• Experience performing data gathering and analysis on perceived threats; generating additional contextual data that can be operationalized
• Experience with common tools used within Security Operations
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and provide clarity to complex situations
• Ability to work autonomously with a strong sense of urgency, ownership and self drive
• Ability to build partnerships and get results across many different stakeholders
• Ability to effectively communicate, both verbal and written, to stakeholders regarding relative risk, urgency, and feedback
• Highly qualified candidates will have an understanding of nation state motivations and operational capabilities
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools for threat intelligence
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering to extract actionable indicators
• Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, or Security Automation role
• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language for automation (e.g., Python)
• Security Concepts: Deep understanding of the cyber kill chain, threat actor TTPs, common attack vectors, networking protocols, and operating system internals
• Automation Expertise: Proven experience designing and implementing SOAR playbooks and integrating security tools via APIs
• Intelligence Tools: Experience working with commercial and open-source Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) and threat feeds
• Cloud Security: Familiarity with security services and automation in major cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!

Health & Welfare Benefits:

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits:

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off:

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

Additional Benefits:

• Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
• Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
• 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Equity: This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

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