Full-Time Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection

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About Us Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Our Team From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn’t just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The Role We’re looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection to build and grow our organization’s threat detection and intelligence program. Reporting to the Manager, Information Security, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our mission to enable safer drivers and better lives through risk-informed choices. Your contributions will directly protect our InsurTech products, safeguarding our customers, their data, and the integrity of our industry-leading solutions. This is an opportunity to lead the charge in ensuring our platform’s resilience against emerging threats while enabling safer driving and innovative insurance models.

Your Day-to-Day

• Develop, implement, and maintain proactive threat detection capabilities within the SIEM, correlating logs from multiple sources to identify and neutralize threats.
• Build and manage SOAR playbooks, runbooks, and automation workflows to scale security operations and streamline incident response.
• Collaborate with product development teams to deeply understand application architectures, data flows, and infrastructure platforms to design targeted and effective detection rules.
• Conduct regular threat hunts and leverage the latest threat intelligence to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, anomalous activity, and potential risks.
• Lead efforts to correlate internal and external threat intelligence, contributing to a comprehensive picture of the evolving threat landscape.
• Create scalable frameworks that enable other team members and stakeholders to contribute to the program, ensuring its sustainability and continuous improvement.
• Engage directly with product development teams, providing guidance and actionable insights to ensure the security of new features and applications.
• Report findings, trends, and program metrics to stakeholders, with a focus on actionable recommendations and alignment to business objectives.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent relevant experience)
• 6 - 8 years of experience in cybersecurity, to include 3 or more years experience in threat hunting, detection, and intelligence roles.

Skills

• Strong expertise with SIEM platforms and SOAR tools
• Advanced understanding of application architectures and infrastructure platforms
• Proficiency in building and tuning detection rules, managing automation workflows, and crafting incident response playbooks
• Deep knowledge of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, and related methodologies
• Excellent communication skills

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