Senior Security Engineer

Dropzone AI; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company paid health insurance

401K Plan with employer match

Self-Managed PTO

Job summary

Dropzone AI is hiring a Security Engineer for a 100% remote role in the United States. You will own investigation quality, write investigation flows, and guide long-term product strategy while mentoring engineers. The role emphasizes Python development, security tooling, and proactive threat hunting.

You’ll collaborate with GTM and customer success to prioritize impactful features, participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, and contribute to a growing, equity-backed startup with strong benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software development or security engineering.
• Strong experience writing production Python code.
• Experience writing detections or working on a SOAR team / threat hunting.
• Understanding of modern security practices and investigation techniques.
• Startup mindset with ability to handle ambiguity and ship features.

Responsibilities

• Write investigation flows and integrations with security tools; fix bugs.
• Evolve investigation logic to handle new alert classes with accuracy and performance.
• Contribute to Python codebase and influence architecture and product strategy.
• Review AI investigations to identify strengths and weaknesses and drive improvements.
• Partner with GTM and customer success to guide technical direction and features.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Skills

Python

Security engineering

Detections

Investigation techniques

Mentorship

On-call

Tools

SOAR

Security tooling

Job description

About Dropzone AI

Dropzone’s mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists. Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, andAIaugmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground. We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.

Powered by GenAIadvancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects. We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity,AI/ML, and SaaS product development. Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using GenAIto transform cyber defense. Learn more at www.dropzone.ai.

About the role

The Security Engineer will own investigation quality and be primarily responsible for ensuring that our AI SOC Analyst is generating accurate, timely reports. This role is pivotal in continuing to maintain and expand our investigation quality lead over the competition.

What you’ll do

• Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs.
• Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
• Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements.
• Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Requirements

• 6+ years in software development or security engineering
• Strong experience writing production Python code
• Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
• Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
• Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward

Work Environment/Travel

We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition, all compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we believe in rewarding long term value creation. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.

The pay range for this role is:

$175,000—$217,000 USD