Senior Security Engineer

Dropzone AI is a company focused on augmenting cybersecurity through AI technology. The Security Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and quality of reports generated by the AI SOC Analyst, while also contributing to product improvements and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs
• Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
• Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements
• Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Requirements:

• 6+ years in software development or security engineering
• Strong experience writing production Python code
• Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
• Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
• Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward