Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Cribl

Cribl is building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era, partnering with IT and Security teams at many of the world’s biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we provide customers with the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, enabling them to innovate.

We are one of the fastest-growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast-moving market. With a global workforce, we are remote-first and grounded in the idea that software is a people business. Cribl is a place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Cribl builds telemetry infrastructure for some of the world's biggest security teams. Now, we're looking for someone to protect Cribl itself. You'll join Cribl's internal security team, Team Alpine, to run detection as code. Our team operates a detection-as-code pipeline where rules live in Git, are tested in CI, and deploy to our SIEM automatically. AI agents watch for coverage gaps and help review every change.

This is a hands-on senior role covering the entire detection lifecycle. You'll hunt for threats nobody has written a rule for yet, turn your findings into detections, and maintain the log pipelines supporting those detections. For the initial 6–12 months, you'll also be a core part of our incident response rotation while we build out that function. You'll lead investigations, and your learnings will feed directly back into detections.

If you want your work to show up in production quickly, and you enjoy owning both the data and the rules, this role is for you. You will partner closely with Product Security, IT, and Legal teams, and report to the Sr. Director, Security Engineering and Operations under the CISO.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

Detection Engineering

• Design, build, test, and tune detections as code (KQL) through a GitOps workflow: issue, pull request, unit and back-testing, then automated deployment.
• Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK, identify coverage gaps, and decide where to invest next based on our threat model.
• Review new community and vendor rule releases, such as Sigma, and decide what to adopt, adapt, or skip.
• Cut alert noise by tuning, retiring rules that no longer earn their place, and tracking detection quality metrics.

Threat Hunting

• Plan and run hypothesis-driven hunts across cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, and corporate infrastructure telemetry.
• Use adversary emulation to generate test events for detections that have nothing to fire on yet.
• Turn hunt findings into durable detections, documentation, and backlog items.

Incident Response (initial [6–12] months)

• Take part in the IR rotation: triage, scope, contain, and investigate security incidents from first alert to closure.
• Run retrospectives and turn the lessons into new detections, playbook updates, and fixes to visibility gaps.
• Write and maintain runbooks so others on the team can respond consistently.

Detection Infrastructure & Log Pipelines

• Assist in ownership of the health of security log flow: onboard new sources, maintain parsing and normalization, and monitor for dropped, delayed, or malformed data.
• Assist and build and maintain data pipelines with Cribl Stream to route, enrich, and reduce telemetry before it reaches the SIEM.
• Maintain the CI/CD and automation behind the detection program, including GitHub Actions, SIEM API integrations, and AI-assisted gap analysis and PR review.

Across the Team

• Work independently, and design the processes, standards, and tools that help others work well.
• Mentor teammates through code review, pairing, and clear documentation.
• Work with IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, and GRC to close visibility gaps and improve detection coverage.
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties.

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

• 5+ years in security operations, with significant hands-on time in detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response.
• Experience writing and maintaining detections as code in a modern SIEM.
• Strong Python skills and comfort with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI/CD.
• Strong in KQL for writing detection queries.
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and how to use it for coverage analysis, not just labeling.
• Experience investigating incidents in cloud (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure), SaaS, and identity providers.
• Hands-on experience with log pipelines: getting data in, parsing it, and fixing it when it breaks.
• The judgment to separate a real signal from noise, and to know when to escalate.
• Clear writing for both technical and non-technical audiences: incident summaries, runbooks, detection docs.
• Uses AI as a routine part of engineering work, with concrete examples of how it has changed how you build, test, or investigate.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Cribl Stream or other telemetry pipeline tools.
• Experience with Sigma rules, adversary emulation (Atomic Red Team, Caldera, or similar), or purple teaming.
• Experience building agentic or AI-assisted workflows for security operations.
• Certifications such as GCIH, GCDA, or equivalent experience.

Salary and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $108,000—$169,000 USD. This is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

In addition to base salary, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program. Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), and equity.

Bring Your Whole Self

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.