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# Security Engineer, Threat Detection

- **Company:** TDR, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $263,245.0 - $286,894.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Digital Forensics, Elasticsearch, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Scripting, Mitre Att&ck, Cyber Threat Analysis, Pandas, Amazon Relational Database Service, Cybercrime, Data Analytics, Functional Programming
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/d22967d1-5d27-413d-be24-ef0b70f0a0e2/sr-security-engineer-threat-detection-and-response

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering.
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 * Proficiency in Python or other scripting language. We also use SQL and Pandas frequently.
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 * Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.
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 * Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance.
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 * Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence and not authority.
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 * Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical high-stress situations with expediency.
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 * Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
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 * Knowledge and familiarity of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework and how these apply to the threat landscape.
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 * Experience automating security detection and response.
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 * Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred
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 * We are not focused on specific tools but we often use Python, AWS, SQL, and more
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## Description

* The Threat Detection and Response team (TDR) is focused on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and working with partner teams to build capabilities that support the incident lifecycle. This is the front-line team that detects, investigates, and responds to internal & external security threats and malicious activity.
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 * This is a key role to help define and execute our vision for threat detection and incident response capabilities and process while mentoring other team members. As a senior engineer on the team, you will have direct impact building, optimizing, and growing securing capabilities as you help deliver world-class threat detection and incident response.
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 * The Difference You Will Make:
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 * You will be a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team.
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 * You will get an opportunity to define and execute on novel approaches to detecting, containing and mitigating threats and incidents.
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 * You will partner with cross-functional partners across the company to improve the overall security driven by learnings and root cause analysis of investigations and incidents resulting in removal of entire classes of problems.
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