Senior Cybersecurity Lead, Space IoT & Incident Response

E-Space; Saratoga (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness care options

Competitive salaries

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Continuous learning and development

Job summary

E-Space seeks a highly technical Principal Cybersecurity Lead to defend our growing LEO IoT space system. You will investigate incidents, write production-grade detection code, and drive adversary emulation while coordinating across security and engineering teams.

You will apply practical frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, build detections for network, endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry, and lead strategic security initiatives in a fast-paced space tech environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience defending complex corporate environments and leading high‑severity investigations from initial signal through containment and root cause.
• Demonstrated hacker mindset and practical knowledge of exploitation, persistence, credential theft, identity attacks, lateral movement, evasion, C2, and exfiltration—applied only in authorized contexts.

Responsibilities

• Monitor threat campaigns, attacker behavior, and vulnerabilities; translate intelligence into detections and defensive actions.
• Architect secure designs across identity, zero-trust, network segmentation, and cloud controls.
• Develop detections, analytics, automation, and investigation tooling for security operations.
• Lead incident response, containment, eradication, and post-incident improvements.
• Own risk-based vulnerability management and remediation strategies.

Skills

Hands-on cybersecurity

Hacker mindset

Programming ability

Threat hunting

Incident response leadership

Threat intelligence

Security architecture

Detection engineering

Risk-based decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SIEM/EDR/NDR

Python/Go/Rust/PowerShell

Cloud security telemetry

Forensics methods

Job description

E-Space seeks a highly technical Principal Cybersecurity Lead to defend our growing LEO IoT space system. You will investigate incidents, write production-grade detection code, and drive adversary emulation while coordinating across security and engineering teams.

You will apply practical frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, build detections for network, endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry, and lead strategic security initiatives in a fast-paced space tech environment.