Threat Hunter - Security Operations Expert

About Andesite:

After decades defending the nation's most sensitive networks, we founded Andesite with a clear mission: to build security products that transform how humans and AI collaborate to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

We’re a diverse team of cyber and security experts, passionate technologists, and experienced product builders. We come from some of the largest national security, tech, cybersecurity, and data organizations on the planet.

We've raised more than $38 million from investors like General Catalyst and Red Cell Partners.

The future of cybersecurity isn't about better technology alone—it's about reimagining how humans and machines work together. Come build with us.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated Security Operations Expert with a strong private sector background to contribute towards the development and execution of our product vision. This role is an advocate of security operations workflows, integrations, technology stack, detection engineering, and security analysis. As a key member of the Product team, this role will collaborate closely with engineering, internal stakeholders, and external partners to build an integration ecosystem that enhances the user experience and drives business growth. Additionally, the person in this role may occasionally provide support for customer security tool integrations with our product. The ideal candidate is someone who understands security operations at tactical and strategic levels, who has become intimately familiar with the challenges of security detection and analysis at scale, and is ready to help build a platform that addresses these pain points

Key Responsibilities: 

Internal Security Consulting:

• Occasionally assist internal security operations with various tasks including detection engineering, SIEM maintenance, and analysis.
• Support continuous improvement of internal security processes

Development:

• Work with cross-functional teams to build realistic scenarios that enable collection of security logging, generation of alerts, and drive realistic analytic workflows.
• Build detections for all supported SIEMs to produce security alerting to support product use case development.

Engineering and Customer Support:

• When required, work with engineering to help solve customer problems related to integration with tools in the customer’s security stack.
• Collaborate with product and customer support to translate security insights into feature requirements

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations including incident response, detection engineering in government or commercial with a preference for commercial
• Thorough working knowledge of security tools like Splunk, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and point solutions.
• Thorough understanding of security data flows and integrations.
• Strong technical background with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Self-starter with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Roles you may have held previously:
  • Threat Hunter
  • SOC Chief/Manager
  • Detection Engineer
  • Tier 3+ SOC Analyst
  • Security Engineer

Even Better If You Have:

• Experience with building your SOC’s technology stack.
• Experience building automations and custom SIEM capabilities.
• Experience working with cyber test range environments.

What We Can Offer:

• A competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
• Flexible work environment where you manage your workday
• A remote-first environment, with occasional travel to collaborate with customers, your team, and teammates from across the company in person
• 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave

Salary range: $170,000-$200,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Andesite is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!