Staff Threat Intelligence Engineer — Elevate Cloud Security

Nscale; Seattle (WA); Presencial; USD 190.000 - 225.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Equity

Bonus potential

Flexible work policy

Descripción de la vacante

Nscale is seeking a Staff Security Engineer, Threat Intelligence to build and scale the company’s threat intelligence capability, turning adversary insight into actionable detections across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems.

You’ll work closely with Detection & Response to improve coverage, translate intelligence into detections and security controls, and map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK while driving engineering-led security initiatives at staff level.

Formación

• 8+ years of experience in threat intelligence, security engineering, or detection engineering.
• Strong understanding of threat actors, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Experience translating intelligence into detections, rules, or security controls.
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms and detection pipelines.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) and data formats such as STIX/TAXII.
• Understanding of cloud environments and modern infrastructure.
• Experience leveraging automation or AI/ML techniques for intelligence analysis or enrichment.
• Ability to operate at a Staff level, driving strategy and owning systems.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to share insights and risks with technical teams and leadership.
• Nice to have: AI infrastructure, threat hunting, incident response, SOAR integrations, malware analysis, or advanced threat actor tracking.

Responsabilidades

• Track relevant threat actors, campaigns, and emerging attack techniques tied to Nscale's environment.
• Analyze adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to identify security implications.
• Produce actionable threat intelligence tailored to infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems.
• Evaluate external intelligence sources, feeds, and tooling for relevance and quality.
• Translate intelligence into detection logic, SIEM rules, and security controls.
• Partner with Detection & Response to improve coverage against known adversary behaviors.
• Maintain mappings to MITRE ATT&CK and identify coverage gaps.
• Improve defensive visibility by aligning detections to current and emerging threats.
• Integrate threat intelligence into SIEM pipelines, enrichment systems, and automation workflows.
• Leverage AI/automation to process large threat data volumes.
• Support use of intelligence data within operational security systems and workflows.
• Support incident response and threat hunting with contextual intelligence and hypothesis generation.
• Communicate insights, risks, and adversary activity clearly to teams and leadership.
• Enable more effective response playbooks by embedding intelligence into workflows.
• Threat intelligence integrated into SIEM pipelines and automation workflows.
• Detection coverage against known adversary behaviors.
• Coverage gap tracking through MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
• Actionable intelligence produced for infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems.

Conocimientos

Threat intelligence

Security engineering

Detection engineering

SIEM

TIPs

STIX/TAXII

Cloud environments

Automation/AI/ML

Leadership

Communication

Herramientas

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

SIEM pipelines

Descripción del empleo

Nscale is seeking a Staff Security Engineer, Threat Intelligence to build and scale the company’s threat intelligence capability, turning adversary insight into actionable detections across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems.

You’ll work closely with Detection & Response to improve coverage, translate intelligence into detections and security controls, and map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK while driving engineering-led security initiatives at staff level.