Principal Security Engineer, Detection
Pubblicato il 05-10-2026 - Jobtailor in Italia
- Provide senior technical leadership across Security Operations, focusing on detection engineering, security research, SOC automation, threat hunting and fraud monitoring platform development
- Develop and maintain security detections across the technology stack
- Execute hypothesis-driven threat hunts and translate attacker TTPs into practical detections
- Map capabilities to MIT&CK; and identify coverage gaps
- Lead development of the fraud and abuse monitoring platform
- Design analytics, detection logic and integrations to identify abuse patterns within business applications
- Design and develop SOC automation
- Build automated enrichment, investigation and response workflows using SOAR playbooks
- Conduct independent research into emerging threats, vulnerabilities and attack techniques
- Reproduce exploits in controlled environments to validate findings
- Provide technical leadership and establish engineering standards
- Conduct quality reviews and act as a senior technical decision-maker
- Own complex technical projects from concept through implementation with a high degree of autonomy
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, software development, or a combination of both with a strong security focus
- Demonstrated experience developing software, automation or security tooling
- Strong Python development capability
- Strong understanding of security monitoring and detection engineering
- Experience working with SIEM, security analytics and large-scale security telemetry
- Experience designing and developing integrations between security platforms and other systems
- Strong understanding of networking and network security principles
- Ability to translate security research into practical detections, automation or engineering solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Excellent technical documentation skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Demonstrated initiative and willingness to r