Security Engineer, Nation State

What you'll do

• Identify and prioritize security risks, threat-model assets, and review system architectures to recommend logging, detection, and prevention controls.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to deploy risk-mitigation capabilities and improve incident detection and response, including automated workflows and logging pipelines.
• Support incident response and work with policy, legal, and asset-owning teams to strengthen standards, governance, access controls, and operational processes.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of experience in offensive or defensive cyber operations, detection and response engineering, or a similar security engineering role.
• Experience influencing across functions, delivering executive-level security strategies, and engineering or reasoning about complex technical systems.
• Experience designing systems for responding to external and insider threats; experience in threat hunting.
• B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice to have

• Background in security-focused software engineering, large-scale systems and data pipelines, and offensive security.
• Broad security knowledge with depth in areas such as logs and events processing, offensive or defensive security, or detection and response tooling.

Pay

USD $219,000/year to $301,000/year (base salary)

Tools

custom detection and response platforms, custom datasets and infrastructure

AI focus

Integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and deliver measurable impact; apply responsible and ethical AI practices; continue developing AI skills, including prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.