Threat Detection & Mitigation Engineer

Candidate; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Detections Engineer to identify, track, and defeat sophisticated threats across our global platform from Austin, TX. You will examine real-time data, develop detections, and mitigate abuse to protect millions of users and customers.

This role demands strong analytical thinking, knowledge of cyber threat landscape, and ability to convey complex findings clearly to technical and executive audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience in data, metadata, or network traffic analysis.
• Ability to analyze attacker TTPs at varying levels.
• Understand security trends related to platform threats and abuse.
• Experience using a data analysis platform and rule configuration.
• Understanding of cyber threat landscape and actors.
• Experience tracking cyber campaigns using indicators of compromise.
• Working knowledge of SQL and crafting queries.
• Python or other scripting experience.
• Ability to present threat intelligence to technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Data analysis

Network analysis

Threat intel

TTPs

SQL

Python

Stakeholder comms

Threat modeling

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Detections Engineer to identify, track, and defeat sophisticated threats across our global platform from Austin, TX. You will examine real-time data, develop detections, and mitigate abuse to protect millions of users and customers.

This role demands strong analytical thinking, knowledge of cyber threat landscape, and ability to convey complex findings clearly to technical and executive audiences.