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 be responsible for developing precise and effective detection rules, analyzing and assessing false positives, optimizing rules for enhanced detection accuracy, collaborating with the team to improve existing rules, staying informed about emerging threats and industry trends, and following good detection engineering practices. This role offers a flexible and independent work environment, the opportunity to influence the design of a disruptive product, and a chance to work with the best in the industry.

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

• Permanent-fulltime collaboration (UoP)
• Flexible working hours, this is a 100% remote role based within Poland; we provide optional membership in major co-working spaces
• Currently for this role in Poland we are able to consider only candidates that are already eligible to work in the EU at the time of applying
• Optionally for those willing to relocate to the Czech Republic relocation assistance is available for any candidates that are already eligible to work in the EU at the time of applying
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of grant of RSUs (restricted stock units), not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly, stock refresh yearly
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments
• LuxMed, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, PPK (4% employer contribution)
• Flexible time off (up to 30 paid days off per annum!)
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off (e.g. 4 days in 2022)
• Monthly Wellness Allowance
• Monthly Working from Home allowance
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters)
• Udemy Business platform for Hard/Soft skills Training & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Aditional Country-specific Benefits & Allowances To Poland