Senior Threat and Detection Software Engineer

March 15

🤠 Texas – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Insane Cyber

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Insane Cyber is a company focused on simplifying operational technology (OT) cybersecurity. They provide powerful automation tools like Valkyrie and Cygnet, designed to protect networks from threats and enhance real-time insight into industrial cybersecurity. With services such as managed services and professional support, Insane Cyber aims to address the complexities of cybersecurity in industrial environments, ensuring effective protection and response capabilities for their clients.

infosec • digital forensics • threat hunting • forensics • cyber security

2 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Contribute code into Valkyrie and Cygnet as part of an agile sprint process with a multidisciplinary engineering team. • Keep up with current and emerging threats and develop innovative ways to implement detection of threats in Valkyrie and Cygnet with both host and network data. • Work with customers to identify improvement areas for threat detection in critical infrastructure environments. • Apply working experience with protocol dissection and proprietary protocol analysis, preferably in the industrial space. • Contribute to the technical roadmap and product strategy discussions, providing insights and expertise. • Collaborate with the engineering, professional services, external customers and other internal and external groups to identify, architect, develop and deliver capabilities to end users.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in detection engineering or threat intel detection capability development, preferably in the cybersecurity industry on host and/or network detection products. • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Proven experience building scalable cybersecurity platforms capable of handling batch and streaming host and network data. • Working knowledge of proprietary and open source threat detection engines and rulesets (Suricata, Yara, Sigma, ClamAV, etc) • Working experience with host and network data analysis across packet capture files, host logs, registry, memory and/or disk artifacts. • Working knowledge of major nation state and criminal level threats and past experience building host and network detections to identify those threats. • Deep working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, or other threat modeling frameworks. • Ability to research and discover proprietary protocols and add support to Valkyrie and Cygnet capabilities. • Static and dynamic reverse engineering with SysInternals or other networking/host libraries is a major plus. • Systems reverse engineering (IDA Pro, Ghidra, BinaryNinja) and operating system internals knowledge across Windows and/or Linux. • Industrial cybersecurity and/or critical operations industry experience is preferred. • Strong proficiency in backend languages and frameworks, such as Python, JavaScript, C, Go, Rust, or similar technologies. • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary • Equity offering subject to board approval • Comprehensive medical/dental/vision/life insurance plan • Retirement plan with employer match • Flexible working hours and generous time-off policy