Senior Security Detection Engineer

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The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO)  

The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO) delivers world-class, innovative security solutions to reduce risk and protect the company and our customers. We enable our customers to migrate their most sensitive data and workloads to the cloud, accelerating our business so that we are the most trusted SaaS provider. We create an environment where our employees are proud to work and can make a positive impact 

Threat Detection is looking to hire a Senior Detection Engineer. This role will focus on building detections, workflows and services with a primary goal of improving incident response efficiency. An engineering mindset will be required to deliver high quality solutions for our internal security operations teams.  

The day-to-day will consist of utilizing Agile processes with a strong bias towards utilizing the ServiceNow platform. Coordinating with several peer teams on development status will be a significant key to success. This person will need a combination of technical development and customer support skills in order to thrive in a hyper collaborative environment. 

This is a high visibility role and will be critical for scaling threat detection and response functions into the next generation. 

Please Note:  This position will include supporting our US Federal customers. 

This position requires passing a ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening.   

Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered. 

 What you get to do in this role: 

• Build threat detection use cases leveraging threat intelligence and incident response data. 

• Document products and deliver demos to operational teams.   

• Work directly with security platform engineering teams, platform Development teams, and product managers on requirements and future product roadmaps. 

• Collaborate with other detection engineers and incident responders on new detections. 

• Design and build systems in a variety of public cloud ecosystems. 

• Provide input on future products for a digital transformation cloud company. 

• Work with a data scientist on training novel ML models for detection use cases.  

Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI’s potential impact on the function or industry. 

To be successful in this role you have: 

• Overall, 6+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Security Operations. 

• At least 3 years of experience of writing advanced power user queries in Splunk including creating field extractions with regex.  

• A strong understanding of attacks against a JavaScript and Java application

• At least 1 year experience working with public cloud technology IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP). 

• Familiar with incident response / digital forensics processes. 

• Experience in or working directly with security operations teams. 

• High degree of interpersonal skills will be required given this role will interact with many teams. 

• Familiar with using the ServiceNow platform is preferred. 

• Open mind for exploring innovative ideas for automating repetitive manual tasks. 

• Bachelor's degree in technical science or equivalent project/work experience. 

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