Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Incident Response & Hunting

Nightwing; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401k plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Additional insurances

Job summary

Nightwing seeks a Senior Detection Engineer to develop, validate, deploy, and tune detection logic across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud telemetry for a federal contract. You will turn threat intelligence and incident lessons into reliable analytics, signatures, and automation while partnering with threat hunters and delivery teams to close visibility gaps.

The role requires senior-level threat hunting and detection engineering experience, extensive MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and strong

Qualifications

• US citizen with active TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, deploy, and tune production detections across endpoints, network, identity, and cloud telemetry.
• Coordinate with hunters, incident responders, intel analysts, and engineers to integrate detections into workflows.
• Translate hunt findings into actionable detection content and automation.

Skills

US Citizenship

Active TS/SCI clearance

DHS Suitability

10+ years experience

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Python

PowerShell

Query languages (KQL/SPL/EQL)

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering related field

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Microsoft Defender

Cortex XDR

SentinelOne

Elastic

Splunk

Sigma

Job description

Nightwing seeks a Senior Detection Engineer to develop, validate, deploy, and tune detection logic across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud telemetry for a federal contract. You will turn threat intelligence and incident lessons into reliable analytics, signatures, and automation while partnering with threat hunters and delivery teams to close visibility gaps.

The role requires senior-level threat hunting and detection engineering experience, extensive MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and strong