Detection & Threat Engineer - 175934

Piper Companies; United States; À distance; USD 130 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

PTO

Résumé du poste

Piper Companies is seeking a Detection & Threat Engineer to join a leading cybersecurity-focused organization. This role focuses on developing advanced threat detections, enhancing security monitoring, and improving threat visibility across enterprise environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Splunk experience, writes SPL queries from scratch, and can implement risk-based alerting and UEBA. You will collaborate with Threat Hunting and Incident Response to strengthen detections across cloud,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in detection engineering or related security role.
• Advanced SPL query writing experience from scratch in Splunk.
• Experience with Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) and UEBA implementations.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat hunting.
• Experience supporting SOC/IR/Threat Hunting functions.
• Knowledge of cloud, endpoint, and identity security monitoring.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Develop and maintain advanced detection content within Splunk ES and related security platforms.
• Write complex SPL queries from scratch to identify threats, suspicious behaviors, and emerging attack techniques.
• Design, implement, and optimize Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) methodologies to improve detection fidelity and reduce alert fatigue.
• Leverage UEBA capabilities to identify anomalous user and entity behavior across enterprise environments.
• Partner with Threat Hunting, Incident Response, and Security Operations teams to improve detection coverage and investigation workflows.
• Analyze attack patterns and adversary techniques to create proactive detection use cases aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Continuously tune and enhance alerting logic to improve operational efficiency and threat visibility.
• Support detection engineering initiatives for cloud, endpoint, identity, and network security technologies.

Connaissances

Splunk SPL

RBA

UEBA

Splunk Enterprise Security

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat Detection

Threat Hunting

Security Engineering

Outils

Splunk

Splunk Enterprise Security

Description du poste

Piper Companies is seeking a Detection & Threat Engineer to join a leading cybersecurity-focused organization. The Detection & Threat Engineer will play a key role in developing advanced threat detections, enhancing security monitoring capabilities, and improving threat visibility across enterprise environments. This position is ideal for a security professional with strong experience writing SPL queries from scratch and hands‑on expertise with Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).

Responsibilities of the Detection & Threat Engineer:

• Develop and maintain advanced detection content within Splunk Enterprise Security and related security platforms.
• Write complex SPL queries from scratch to identify threats, suspicious behaviors, and emerging attack techniques.
• Design, implement, and optimize Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) methodologies to improve detection fidelity and reduce alert fatigue.
• Leverage UEBA capabilities to identify anomalous user and entity behavior across enterprise environments.
• Partner with Threat Hunting, Incident Response, and Security Operations teams to improve detection coverage and investigation workflows.
• Analyze attack patterns and adversary techniques to create proactive detection use cases aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Continuously tune and enhance alerting logic to improve operational efficiency and threat visibility.
• Support detection engineering initiatives for cloud, endpoint, identity, and network security technologies.

Qualifications of the Detection & Threat Engineer:

• 4+ years of experience in Detection Engineering, Threat Detection, Threat Hunting, or Security Engineering.
• Advanced experience writing SPL queries from scratch in Splunk.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).
• Experience developing detection logic and security use cases within Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience supporting SOC, Incident Response, or Threat Hunting functions.
• Familiarity with cloud security, endpoint security, and identity security monitoring.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Compensation for the Detection & Threat Engineer includes:

• Salary range: $130,000 - $160,000 depending on experience
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and PTO

This job opens for applications on 10/09/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.