Security Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete technical lifecycle for customer deployments, from the initial architecture review to live production, ongoing integration development, and maintaining long-term platform health.

• Develop cloud integrations.

• Create and optimize detection rules within SIEMs.

• Troubleshoot customer environments.

• Ensure that every customer interaction fosters a SenseOn advocate.

• Collaborate with the Customer Success team to create technical business cases that secure renewals and facilitate expansion.

⛳️ Requirements

• Lead comprehensive SenseOn platform deployments and intricate log ingestion rollouts without disrupting the customer experience.

• Perform architectural reviews to establish deployment strategies and identify integration opportunities.

• Manage the post-sale technical relationship to ensure steady-state operations, meeting technical success criteria linked to measurable security outcomes.

• Be available for international travel if necessary.

• Provide the technical evidence and build business cases for renewals and expansions by translating platform telemetry and incident response data into clear customer outcomes.

• Conduct proactive health checks on environments, address technical gaps, and resolve visibility issues prior to renewal discussions.

• Work alongside Sales Engineering to ensure a seamless transition from pre-sale technical validation to post-sale deployment.

• Develop production-quality software to build and maintain integrations with third-party security tools, SIEMs, identity platforms, and AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

• Thoughtfully utilize AI tools to expedite integration development while ensuring the accuracy, security, and maintainability of the deployed code.

• Contribute reusable connectors to the SenseOn integration library and create custom automation to enhance security operations workflows.

• Work confidently with backend programming languages (Python preferred; Go, JavaScript, and Bash valued) using RESTful APIs, webhooks, and data pipeline patterns.

• Write, tune, and maintain high-fidelity, low-noise SIEM detection rules by translating threat intelligence and attacker behavior.

• Align coverage with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to address visibility gaps and collaborate with Security Operations to develop new detection logic.

• Refine rules post-deployment to minimize false positives and provide expert advice to customers regarding their detection strategy and risk posture.

• Build strong relationships with customer security leadership, acting as a trusted advisor within their security architecture.

• Proactively address adoption risks, eliminate deployment obstacles, and facilitate structured onboarding from platform fundamentals to advanced threat hunting.

• Monitor the health of deployed environments, tackle technical drift, and translate field experiences into actionable internal product feedback.

• Collaborate with Sales Engineering on Proof of Value (PoV) engagements, adding technical credibility to distinguish SenseOn.

• Assist in creating tailored technical demonstrations, architecture proposals, and solution designs for complex prospects transitioning from legacy platforms or traditional SIEM solutions.

• Serve as a direct link between field operations and product teams, raising well-substantiated bugs, feature requests, and detection enhancements.

• Engage in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new platform releases to provide field-informed quality assurance.

• Identify cross-environment patterns to uncover new detection opportunities or platform capability gaps for the analytics backlog.

• Exhibit AI fluency as a fundamental engineering skill.

• Demonstrate a curiosity that rapidly closes gaps.

• Apply engineering judgment effectively.

• Possess a strong customer instinct.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience.

• Unlimited holiday allowance.

• Hybrid working model with flexibility to accommodate customer commitments.

• Bi-annual career progression review.

• Personal learning and development budget.

• MacBook and all necessary tools provided.

• Enhanced pension scheme.

• Private healthcare through Vitality, including rewards and discounts.