Security Engineer, Public SectorActive$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be…

What you'll do

  • Engineer, test, and deploy detection logic across cloud and enterprise: environments, treating detections as software with version control, peer review, and measurable performance.

  • Build and maintain incident response automation, runbooks, and tooling that: reduce containment timelines without sacrificing developer velocity.

  • Mature telemetry pipelines through improved schema design, normalization,: enrichment, and quality checks that reduce false positives and increase signal fidelity.

  • Perform digital incident investigations to identify and contain potential security breaches.

  • Conduct digital forensics and malware analysis to understand attack vectors and adversary methodologies.

  • Integrate alerting with messaging and ticketing systems to enable fast, traceable response workflows.

What they're looking for

  • Partner cross-functionally with IT, security, and engineering teams to harden: identity and access patterns, close logging and forensics gaps, and implement maintainable guardrails that scale with the organization.
  • Utilize threat intelligence platforms to improve hunting, detection, and response workflows.
  • Clearly explain the significance and impact of incidents, providing: actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • At least an active Top Secret clearance. This is a requirement and candidates: will not be considered who do not hold at least a Top Secret clearance.
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