Senior Remote Threat Detection Engineer - Splunk

Piper Companies; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer for a leading technology organization in the cybersecurity industry. The role is a Remote position operating on PST business hours.

An ideal candidate for the Threat Detection Engineer is an experienced cybersecurity professional with a strong background in rapid incident response, threat detection, security monitoring, incident investigation, and proactive threat analysis.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience conducting digital threat investigations, insider threat analysis, and forensic investigations.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise Security, including writing complex SPL queries from scratch and developing production-ready detections.
• Strong experience with Risk-Based Alerting (RBA), User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and security detection engineering methodologies.
• Proven ability to translate threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK techniques into operational detections, response workflows, and measurable security outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct proactive threat hunting and investigations focused on insider threats, suspicious user behavior, and protection of critical intellectual property.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and tune advanced Splunk detections, correlation searches, risk rules, and RBA workflows using SPL.
• Configure and optimize UEBA detections and behavioral analytics to identify high-risk activity across enterprise environments.
• Produce detailed investigative reports, technical documentation, and actionable recommendations to support security operations and risk mitigation.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Threat hunting

Security monitoring

Tools

Splunk Enterprise Security

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer for a leading technology organization in the cybersecurity industry. The role is a Remote position operating on PST business hours.

An ideal candidate for the Threat Detection Engineer is an experienced cybersecurity professional with a strong background in rapid incident response, threat detection, security monitoring, incident investigation, and proactive threat analysis.