Sr Developer - Detection
Sr Developer - Detection
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Job Description
Senior Detection Developer PaaS
A Detection Developer has a clear history of successful contribution to professional detection development projects. They are driven curious and results oriented. They are able to manage competing priorities as they relate to improving existing our existing codebase of detections and constantly challenge the status quo. With additional experience and exposure to advanced detection development patterns and projects they are capable of becoming a Technical Lead within 2 years.
Basic Qualifications
4 or more years of professional experience as a Detection Developer
Experience consists of projects contributing in either Python or YAML
SaaS IaaS and Identity Specific Telemetry (AWS Cloudtrail Azure Activity Logs IDPs API Activity Logs Mail)
Cloud and Identity Forensic Investigation Experience
SIEM Detections
CDRdetections/signatures
Sigma Rules
Development of anomaly and behavioral based detections
Tuning and optimization of detections for all the above
Professional certifications in Security and/or Cloud are required (i.e. CISSP CCSP GIAC Cloud Threat Detection (GCTD) GIAC Public Cloud Security (GPCS) GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR) AWS Security Specialty Microsoft Azure Security Certifications.
Experience consists of leading a team of 3 or more Detection Developers while contributing code independently
Experience leading Agile development teams preferably with formal Agile training
Preferably located in Canada or the U.S.
Nice to have: A clear history of technical influence (public conference talks papers etc)
Nice to have: A clear history of learning and skills development. Regularly helps detection developers develop their skills in a variety of ways.
Nice to have: B.Sc. in Computer Science
About the role
Youll be working as a detection developer on our Cloud Detection Team responsible for ensuring quality and scale of our detection base and presenting actionable detections to our Security Services teams and customers.
Some of your daytoday responsibilities will be:
Providing mentorship and technical leadership to the team.
Developing and maintaining Python and YAMLbased detections software and systems.
Research and develop expertise in the various threat surfaces and telemetry available for them
Propose coverage and efficacy improvements to the detection surface
Work with team members to develop novel detections and continuously tune existing ones
Build runbooks reports and supporting material for detection surfaces
Collaborating with crossfunctional teams to gather requirements and implement detections.
Writing clean efficient and reusable code in Python.
Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability.
Debugging and fixing issues in existing Python codebases.
Optimizing application performance and ensuring scalability.
Participate in the full software development life cycle building welldesigned testable efficient secure code.
Understand the product and how Security Services delivers the service.
Develop professional expertise apply company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues. Determine a course of action based on guidelines and modify processes and methods as required.
Continuously learning and adopting best practices for code quality software development methodologies and programming principles to enhance coding skills and stay updated with industry advancements.
We value a culture of sharing so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a departmentwide Hackathon teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus some of these ideas do make it into our products.
About you
Youre a talented detection developer who loves building things and cares deeply about code quality and reliability while optimizing performance. You enjoy coordinating with distributed crossfunctional teams. You are constantly adapting to emerging technologies trends and best practices. You will build productive internal/external working relationships to resolve mutual problems by collaborating on procedures or transactions with a focus on providing standard professional advice and creating initial reports/analyses for review by experienced team professionals.
Here are some of the core technologies we use and teach across our detections teams:
Python
Sigma
Suricata
Wazuh
Kibana
Git
SQL
You are not required to be an expert in any of these but you should be excited by the opportunity to learn new things and comfortable with coming up to speed quickly. Any experience with detection development or fullstack development frameworks and practices is relevant and transferrable.
Interview Process
The interview process is approximately as follows:
Phone prescreening: A recruiter contacts you to briefly discuss your work history and provide an overview of Arctic Wolf. Approximately 30 minutes.
Facetoface interviews: Several team members conduct three interviews to learn more about you and provide more information about your potential role and team. This interview will touch on past projects and your career goals. Approximately 1 hour total.
Technical assessment: A recruiter sends you a link to a straightforward technical assessment that is relevant to the role you are applying for. Approximately 1 hour.
Technical breadth interview: Meeting with some technical team members to evaluate the knowledge of our tech stack and experience in other associated complementary or substitute technologies. Be prepared to collaborate on a technical problem . Approximately 1.5 hours.
Technical depth interview: Meeting with some technical team members to review the technical assessment done. Be prepared to collaborate on a technical problem . Approximately 1.5 hours.
External influence and Training Role Objective
Be seen as a technical thought leader both internally and externally. Participate and lead internal knowledge sharing workshops contribute to external publications lead public events relevant to job role.
Attend training seminars or webinars relevant to job role to enhance current knowledge base and skill set in order to improve job performance and efficiency. Attend at least one event a year. The training should not impact job/project deliverables.
Security Requirements
Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWNs Information Security policies standards processes and controls to protect the confidentiality integrity and availability of AWN business information.
Must pass a criminal background check and an employment verification as a condition of employment.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
