Freelance: Security Engineer

Join a Product Security team focused on improving threat detection and response capabilities across web applications, mobile platforms, APIs, and supporting services. This role combines security engineering, detection development, automation, and AI driven security operations to strengthen the organization's defensive capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, tune, and maintain security detections and anomaly detection use cases within a SIEM platform.
• Develop detection coverage for threats including:
  • Account takeover
  • Automated abuse
  • Enumeration attacks
  • Authentication and session misuse
  • Access control failures
  • Suspicious access to sensitive data
• Improve telemetry quality, event coverage, attribution, and logging capabilities.
• Design and enhance AI assisted alert triage capabilities.
• Improve agent workflows, tool integrations, context enrichment, and escalation procedures.
• Build incident response workflows and security playbooks.
• Implement response automation with appropriate controls, approvals, monitoring, auditability, and rollback capabilities.
• Evaluate detection effectiveness and continuously improve based on feedback and incident learnings.
• Collaborate closely with product, platform, and security teams.

Required Skills

• Experience building or operating production software or security systems.
• Strong hands on experience with SIEM platforms, detection engineering, security analytics, and alert tuning.
• Knowledge of web, mobile, and API security threats.
• Programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience developing or integrating AI agents and LLM powered applications.
• Understanding of logging, telemetry, event schemas, and data quality.
• Experience implementing secure automation and response workflows.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Behavioral analytics and anomaly detection.
• Machine learning based security monitoring.
• Agent frameworks and LLM evaluation.
• Security orchestration and incident response automation.
• Application security testing and investigations.
• Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD environments.

Practical info

• Start: ASAP
• 40 hours/week
• 12 month contract (Freelance only)

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