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# SOC Analyst - Vehicle & API Security

- **Company:** Upstream Security Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $136,000.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Big Data, Burp Suite, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Data Infrastructure, Data Visualization, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Mobile Application Software, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Microsoft Office, OAuth, Open Source Intelligence, Security Information and Event Management, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Scripting, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Software Security, Cyber Threat Analysis, Backend, Agentic-AI, Cybercrime, Front End Software Development, Api Gateway, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/senior-soc-analyst-vehicle-api-security/11719703

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience in SOC operations, incident response, threat hunting, or security investigations.
 * Previous customer-facing analyst role, preferably within an MSSP, consulting, or professional services context, preferably in English
 * Strong practical understanding of APIs, including REST, authentication, authorization, OAuth, and JWT.
 * Hands-on API security experience with technologies such as WAFs, API gateways, API security platforms, SIEM, Burp Suite, or similar tools.
 * Experience investigating common API threats, including account abuse, authorization flaws, injection, data exposure, and business-logic attacks.
 * Experience with SIEM, SOAR, XDR, security automation, and large-scale data analysis.
 * Experience deploying or maintaining automation, AI-assisted, or agentic AI workflows.
 * Scripting experience, preferably with Python or SQL.
 * Ability to lead complex investigations and operate effectively in high-pressure environments.
 * Experience in automotive, mobility, IoT, cloud security, mobile application security, or managed security services is preferred.

## Description

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Senior level
Investigate and respond to connected-vehicle and API security incidents, lead complex investigations, conduct threat hunting, and improve detection capabilities. Deploy and maintain agentic AI workflows for SOC operations, tune detection logic and machine-learning models, develop playbooks, prepare reports, advise customers, mentor analysts, and track SOC performance against SLAs and KPIs.
The summary above was generated by AI, As a senior analyst, you will serve as a security focal point for customers, lead complex investigations, improve detection capabilities, and help deploy and maintain agentic AI workflows used across SOC operations., * Monitor, investigate, and respond to vehicle and API security alerts.

 * Lead complex investigations, assess impact, identify root causes, and provide actionable mitigation recommendations.
 * Analyze suspicious vehicle behavior, API activity, authentication events, and mobility-related telemetry.
 * Investigate API threats including authorization abuse, credential attacks, injection, data exposure, automation, and business-logic abuse.
 * Deploy, configure, test, and maintain agentic AI workflows supporting alert triage, investigations, threat hunting, reporting, and response.
 * Monitor the accuracy, reliability, and operational performance of AI-driven workflows and continuously improve their prompts, tools, guardrails, and decision logic.
 * Conduct proactive threat hunting and OSINT investigations to identify emerging threats and attack patterns.
 * Develop and maintain investigation playbooks, operational procedures, and response processes.
 * Tune detection logic, behavioral profiles, and machine-learning models to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
 * Produce clear investigation reports, incident updates, dashboards, and executive-level summaries.
 * Act as a trusted security advisor to customers during investigations, workshops, and business reviews.
 * Mentor analysts and promote consistent investigation quality across the SOC.
 * Track operational performance against SLAs, quality standards, and SOC KPIs.
 * Collaborate with threat intelligence, research, product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to improve Upstream's security capabilities., Build a high-performance frontend data platform for exploring and analyzing hardware telemetry. Develop React and TypeScript applications, interactive time-series visualizations, data visualization plugins, complex application state management, and LLM-assisted analysis workflows. Collaborate directly with hardware engineers and customers to define interfaces, prototype workflows, demonstrate features, and incorporate feedback into product development.