Senior Detection & Response Engineer

Summary

Join Mercury's growing InfoSec team and contribute to building a robust defensive strategy against evolving threats. This pivotal role involves monitoring and responding to security incidents, developing detection models, and refining SIEM tools. You will analyze security logs, identify weaknesses, and participate in incident response. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5+ years of experience in information security with a focus on incident response, threat hunting, and creating detection signatures. Mercury offers a competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and benefits, with salary ranges varying based on location and experience.

Requirements

• Have 3-5+ years of experience in Information Security with focus on incident response, threat hunting, and creating detection signatures
• Possess real-world experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale
• Working knowledge of threat modeling, and attack vectors
• Exposure to software development, including GitHub change management, unit testing, pair programming

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze and respond to incidents
• Contribute to building and refining SIEM tools, logging and architecture
• Identify weaknesses in our logs (where is the story missing)
• Develop detection models and response automations
• Participate in incident response
• Manage and maintain security tools

Preferred Qualifications

Python (or any scripting language) experience

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits