Founding US Cloud Security MDR Engineer

Upwind Security, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Upwind Security, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to join our MDR team as the founding U.S. member of the Security organization. You will own proactive reviews, provide advanced guidance to customers, and operate U.S.-hours coverage alongside analysts, researchers, and engineers.

This role offers growth toward technical or team leadership as the U.S. presence scales, with hands-on work across detection tuning, investigations, and collaboration to improve our cloud security platform.

Qualifications

• Experience in proactive security reviews and guidance for customers.
• Strong background in cloud security controls and threat detection.
• Ability to collaborate with analysts, researchers and engineers on security incidents.

Responsibilities

• Assist in fine-tuning Upwind's detection and response mechanisms.
• Support proactive reviews of customer environments to identify risks, exposed attack surfaces, and recommend improvements.
• Lead and conduct in-depth security investigations — including supply chain, API, malware, and runtime attack scenarios — documenting outcomes and developing playbooks to enhance future detection and response.
• Collaborate with Security Analysts, Research, and Backend teams to enhance detection quality.
• Own the handling of complex or critical incidents escalated from Tier 1/2, including live, high-pressure engagements with customers.
• Participate in recurring customer meetings, helping translate security findings into clear, actionable recommendations — and maintain composure when conversations get tense.
• Stay up to date with emerging threats, attack techniques, attack surfaces, and best practices in cloud security.
• Contribute to the development and training of AI-driven detection models, leveraging machine learning to improve investigation accuracy and response efficiency.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Threat detection

Job description

Upwind Security, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to join our MDR team as the founding U.S. member of the Security organization. You will own proactive reviews, provide advanced guidance to customers, and operate U.S.-hours coverage alongside analysts, researchers, and engineers.

This role offers growth toward technical or team leadership as the U.S. presence scales, with hands-on work across detection tuning, investigations, and collaboration to improve our cloud security platform.