Staff Threat Hunter

About the role

As Staff Threat Hunter, you'll own how TENEX hunts — the methodology, the tooling, the hypotheses, and the conversion of hunt findings into production detections. You'll work across multi-tenant MDR telemetry in Google SecOps / Chronicle, partnering with detection engineering to close the gaps automated alerting misses. This is a senior IC role — you set the technical direction for how hunting works at TENEX.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven hunts.
• Run investigations across SIEM, EDR, network, and identity telemetry to surface the threats automated detection misses.
• Own the hunt methodology.
• Build, document, and refine the playbooks the team runs from.
• Decide what gets hunted, on what cadence, and how findings convert into permanent detections.
• Drive the detection engineering partnership.
• Work directly with detection engineers to turn hunt findings into production rules and analytics in Google SecOps / Chronicle.
• Operationalize Threat Intelligence.
• Track adversary TTPs relevant to our customer base, prioritize what matters, and translate intel into hunt hypotheses.
• Mentor SOC analysts and junior hunters.
• Pair on investigations, lead technical deep-dives, and grow the team's hunt capability.
• Lead complex incident investigations.
• When a hunt surfaces a real intrusion, run the technical investigation alongside incident response through containment.
• Report on program outcomes.
• Communicate findings to customers and internal stakeholders — what was found, what was contained, where the detection coverage gap was, and what we changed.

Requirements

• 8+ years in threat hunting, SOC, or incident response, with at least 3 in a senior/lead capacity.
• Deep hands-on experience running hypothesis-driven hunts across SIEM and EDR telemetry in enterprise or MDR environments.
• Strong command of attacker TTPs and MITRE ATT&CK — you can map an intrusion from initial access through impact and explain the detection gap at each stage.
• Scripting fluency in Python and/or PowerShell for hunt tooling, telemetry parsing, and detection automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCDA, OSCP, CISSP, AWS / GCP, or Splunk / Chronicle / Sentinel certifications are a plus.