Senior Security Engineer

Dropzone AI is an award-winning company disrupting the cybersecurity market with AI-driven solutions. The Senior Security Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of AI-generated reports and improving investigation quality, while also contributing to product development and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs
• Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
• Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements
• Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Requirements:

• 6+ years in software development or security engineering
• Strong experience writing production Python code
• Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
• Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
• Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward