Windows Detection Engineer

Summary

Join SentinelOne's Windows Behavioral Rules Team as a Windows Detection Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in crafting, owning, and packaging default rules for the Windows agent. You'll develop precise and effective detection rules, analyze false positives, and contribute to enhancing detection capabilities. This role requires experience in detection engineering, red teaming, or offensive research, along with a deep understanding of Windows attack techniques and internals. You'll work with Python and C/C++, and have familiarity with detection engineering processes, including prioritizing research and development, writing tests, and using CI/CD technologies. SentinelOne offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, generous employee stock plan, meal and wellbeing allowances, flexible time off, global parental leave, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Experience in Detection Engineering / Red Teaming / Offensive Research
• Experience writing behavioral detection rules for EDR, XDR, SIEM or other similar platforms. Experience writing YARA or other types of static detections is nice to have
• Deep understanding of modern Windows attack TTPs (how malware operates, evasion, and exploitation techniques)
• Understanding of Windows internals
• Hands-on experience with coding in Python and C/C++
• Familiarity with Detection Engineering processes including prioritizing a backlog for research and development, writing unit and integration tests, and with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an understanding of false-positive analysis
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills within a team-oriented environment

Responsibilities

• Develop precise and effective detection rules and deliver default rules for the WIN agent
• Rigorously analyze and assess false positives associated with the rules you create
• Contribute to the optimization of rules to minimize false positives and enhance detection accuracy
• Collaborate with the team to optimize existing default rules for superior detection capabilities
• Stay informed about emerging threats, industry trends, and new technologies to continuously improve rule efficacy
• Follow good detection engineering practices and the default rules you develop, including logic, descriptions, and other metadata, tests, and more

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in malware analysis (statically and dynamically) and reverse engineering (x86/x64)
• Understanding of existing EDR internals

Benefits

• Salary from 5000 EUR/month
• Yearly % bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments
• Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia ; optional membership in major co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units) grant not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
• Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.29)
• Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
• Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
• Flexible Paid Sick Days
• Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off (e.g. 4 days in 2022)
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
• Udemy Business platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring 'MentorOne' & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
• On top of RSUs, you can benefit also from our attractive ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)
• Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)