Senior Detection Research Engineer - Flexible Work

Cloud Protection by WithSecure; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Up to 30 days per year working abroad

Paid sick leave from day one

Well-being focus and mental health/ass

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Cloud Protection is hiring a Senior Detection Research Engineer to join our Threat Intelligence team in Helsinki. You’ll research threats targeting Salesforce environments, then translate findings into detection logic that protects customers.

You’ll influence how we write, test, and evaluate detections as protection capabilities evolve. This senior individual contributor role involves hands-on work and close collaboration with product and engineering teams to continuously enhance protection

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat research, malware analysis or a related security role.
• Strong understanding of malware, phishing, URL-based threats and adversary techniques.
• Hands-on experience designing, testing and tuning detections, including investigating false positives and missed detections.
• Experience assessing detection technologies or intelligence sources using representative data and clear performance measures.
• Experience working with engineering and product teams to turn security research into protection improvements.
• Ability to explain technical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, SaaS or cloud security is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Research malware, phishing, and adversary techniques including emerging threats involving AI that target Salesforce and SaaS environments, and translate findings into detection requirements.
• Analyze telemetry, investigate false positives and missed detections, and use the findings to improve existing detections.
• Design detection logic and workflows that combine metadata, threat signals and analysis results to make reliable protection decisions.
• Explore new technologies and detection approaches, test promising ideas quickly, and turn what works into practical improvements to protection.
• Work with detection technology and threat intelligence partners to assess accuracy, latency and contribution to protection.
• Identify missing protection capabilities and work with product and engineering teams to define and prioritize improvements.

Skills

Detection engineering

Threat research

Malware analysis

Detections design & testing

Communication

Cloud security familiarity

Job description

Cloud Protection is hiring a Senior Detection Research Engineer to join our Threat Intelligence team in Helsinki. You’ll research threats targeting Salesforce environments, then translate findings into detection logic that protects customers.

You’ll influence how we write, test, and evaluate detections as protection capabilities evolve. This senior individual contributor role involves hands-on work and close collaboration with product and engineering teams to continuously enhance protection