Senior Staff Threat Researcher, Detection Engineering

Arctic Wolf is a leading company in the cybersecurity industry, striving to redefine security operations. They are seeking a Senior Staff Threat Researcher to provide technical direction and guidance across multiple teams, focusing on delivering high-value solutions and improving existing detection capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a mentor to R&D technical leaders
• Apply broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines
• Lead and contribute to the development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
• Apply conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Accountable for results, which may impact the entire function
• Create formal networks involving coordination among groups
• Focus on providing thought leadership and work on broader organizational projects which require understanding of wider business, by conveying advanced information and persuading several diverse stakeholders/audiences
• Recognized internally and externally as a subject matter expert
• May direct the work of others

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience as a security architect, detection developer, reverse engineer, security researcher, or CNO developer
• Expert‑level Python expertise
• OS‑specific telemetry (Windows Security/Sysmon logs, Linux, MacOS)
• Windows PowerShell monitoring
• SIEM detections
• EDR detections/signatures
• Suricata, Sigma, and Yara rules
• Development of anomaly‑ and behavioral‑based detections
• Tuning and optimization of detections for all the above
• Experience leading and mentoring groups of developers while contributing code independently
• Experience designing and building detection frameworks and processes
• Experience managing and measuring security efficacy of detections
• Experience managing and measuring cost efficiency of detection frameworks
• Deep understanding of networking security principles and flows
• Experience leading Agile development teams, preferably with formal Agile training
• Understanding of the Arctic Wolf service delivery model
• Experience with the Arctic Wolf detection framework and infrastructure
• Commitment to continuous learning and skills development
• B.Sc. in a technical field (CS, CE, EE, Math, Physics, etc.) with M.Sc./PhD preferred