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Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Intelligence

Miro · Austin · On-site

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About Miro

Backed by Accel and ICONIQ.

About the role

Track emerging threats, attacker techniques, and campaigns relevant to cloud and SaaS Turn threat intelligence into practical detection strategies and attack hypotheses

What they're looking for

  • 5–7 years in security , with 2+ years in threat detection, threat intelligence, or investigations
  • Experience in cloud-native SaaS environments (AWS strongly preferred)
  • Strong investigation skills and ability to analyze attacker behavior
  • Experience using threat intelligence to inform detection and response
  • Proficiency in Python and comfort automating security workflows
  • Experience querying large datasets (SQL or similar)
More about this role

We’re looking for a Senior Threat Detection & Intelligence Engineer to help us understand how adversaries operate, detect meaningful threats early, and lead investigations when it matters most. This role sits at the intersection of threat intelligence, detection engineering, and incident investigation with an engineering-first mindset.

If you enjoy turning messy signals into clear attacker narratives, this role is for you.

The Cloud Security & Detection & Response (CSDR) team protects Miro by staying ahead of credible threats. We focus on:

Translating external threat intelligence into actionable detections

Building custom, high-fidelity detections for cloud and SaaS environments

Leading complex investigations and incident response

Partnering with engineering to drive security by design

We care about context, signal quality, and attacker intent not alert volume.

Track emerging threats, attacker techniques, and campaigns relevant to cloud and SaaS

Turn threat intelligence into practical detection strategies and attack hypotheses

Design and maintain context-aware detections across cloud, identity, and application layers

Lead deep investigations, from first signal to root cause and...

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