Detection & Response Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Detection & Response Engineer to join our client's team. This role offers growth opportunities within an innovative environment, focusing on advanced threat detection and response using CrowdStrike Falcon technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate security cases and targeted hunts using CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and CQL; correlate telemetry, assess scope and impact, document findings, and recommend appropriate actions.
• Develop, test, deploy, tune, and maintain detection logic, queries, dashboards, analyst guides, and version-controlled detection content.
• Build and maintain Falcon Fusion SOAR workflows for enrichment, evidence capture, routing, escalation, and authorized response.
• Validate telemetry coverage and quality; troubleshoot parsing, normalization, mapping, and source-data issues.
• Translate validated investigations into platform workflow specifications and co-build scripts, API integrations, workflow components, and prototypes with Product and Engineering.
• Test workflows and detections against representative cases; monitor outcomes, exceptions, and production feedback, and document ownership and support handoffs.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, knowledge transfer, and coaching; coordinate assigned analysis and platform work.

Must Have:

• 5+ years of relevant security experience, including at least 2 years developing, testing, and tuning detection logic, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• Production proficiency with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, including CQL, cross-source investigations, detection content, telemetry interpretation, and tuning.
• Hands-on Falcon Fusion SOAR workflow experience and practical use of Charlotte AI with evidence verification and awareness of approval boundaries.
• Practical Python, REST/Falcon APIs, JSON, authentication, error handling, and secure credential management; familiarity with PowerShell or another relevant scripting language.
• Experience with telemetry onboarding, parser/normalization troubleshooting, MITRE ATT&CK, Windows/Linux events, and controlled changes, version control, peer review, and regression testing.
• Strong investigation judgment, defensible documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience converting SOC runbooks or manual analysis into production workflows or internal security platforms.
• CrowdStrike resident, responder, partner implementation, or customer-embedded Falcon experience; FalconPy or comparable API tooling.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering on analyst-facing features, case lifecycle integration, acceptance testing, or iterative delivery.
• Managed security services, multi-client or follow-the-sun SOC operations, and ITSM integrations such as ServiceNow or Jira.