Senior Threat Detection & Intelligence Engineer

WeHireYou; Austin (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Wellbeing benefit

WFH equipment allowance

Learning & Development stipend

Job summary

Miro is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Intelligence to translate attacker behavior into proactive detections and lead investigative response. You’ll work across cloud, identity, and app layers, guiding incident response and shaping detection programs.

This role is based in Austin and involves collaborating with engineering to improve security maturity. You’ll be tracking threats, designing detections, and leading investigations from signal to remediation, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 5–7 years in security with 2+ years in threat detection, threat intelligence, or investigations.
• Experience in cloud-native SaaS environments, AWS strongly preferred.
• Strong investigation skills and ability to analyze attacker behavior.
• Experience using threat intelligence to inform detection and response.
• Proficiency in Python and comfort automating security workflows.
• Experience querying large datasets (SQL or similar).
• Familiarity with cloud security telemetry, logging, and detection platforms.
• Solid understanding of incident response and digital forensics.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).

Responsibilities

• Track emerging threats, attacker techniques, and campaigns relevant to cloud and SaaS.
• Turn threat intelligence into practical detection strategies and attack hypotheses.
• Design and maintain context-aware detections across cloud, identity, and application layers.
• Lead deep investigations, from first signal to root cause and remediation.
• Act as a technical lead during security incidents, guiding response and decision-making.
• Analyze detection and investigation trends to improve preventative controls.
• Partner with engineering teams to raise security maturity across the organization.

Skills

Threat detection

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Python

SQL

Terraform

Cloud security

Investigation

Tools

AWS

SQL databases

Job description

Miro is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Intelligence to translate attacker behavior into proactive detections and lead investigative response. You’ll work across cloud, identity, and app layers, guiding incident response and shaping detection programs.

This role is based in Austin and involves collaborating with engineering to improve security maturity. You’ll be tracking threats, designing detections, and leading investigations from signal to remediation, with a focus on