Lantern · 5 hours ago
Senior Threat Detection Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expLantern is a specialty care platform that connects people with top specialists for various health needs. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Threat Detection Engineer to lead the development and optimization of threat detection capabilities, focusing on identifying malicious activity and enhancing security posture through collaboration and incident response investigations.
Health CareHospitalMedicalMedical DeviceMental Health
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and tune detection rules and logic across SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms
Develop and maintain threat detection use cases based on MITRE ATT&CK and other frameworks
Perform threat hunting and anomaly detection using behavioral analytics and telemetry
Collaborate with IAM, Data Protection, cloud security, and engineering teams to improve detection coverage
Analyze threat intelligence and integrate findings into detection strategies
Directly monitor, test, and calibrate detection use cases; analyze data to minimize false positives and maximize actionable alerts—proposing and executing code changes to achieve measurable improvements
Directly monitor, test, and calibrate detection use cases; analyze data to minimize false positives and maximize actionable alerts, proposing and executing code changes to achieve measurable improvements
Lead purple team exercises and detection validation efforts
Maintain technical documentation by directly managing the materials and summaries of your own work and solutions, and by actively communicating updates to stakeholders
Develop use-cases based on intelligence, red team results, and incident data
Write detection and correlation rules to identify threats across our stack
Assist in onboarding logs and identifying gaps in logs or alert results
Develop a deep understanding of data models, macros, indexes, sources, and field alias and the technology foundation our detection stack is built
Understand data schema/API standards, automation, and messaging systems
Bring a metric-driven mindset to our rules, signals (IOCs), and alerts
Other duties as assigned, we are one family and help each other
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience in two or more domains, including: detection engineering, data engineering, incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence
Refine, validate and exercise our Threat Detection and Response Programs
Ability to measure detection coverage across common frameworks (e.g. NIST CSF, MITRE, KC) and simplify rules and configurations to optimize alerts
Develop detection techniques to protect our evolving environment
Ability to automate tasks via scripting, automating inputs and outputs of APIs, and programming skills such as python to enable detection engineering tasks
Exceptional interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and ability to internalize and exemplify Lantern's LIGHT Values
Preferred
Experience in healthcare or regulated industries
Certifications such as GCDA, GCTI, OSCP, or similar
Experience with Sigma rules, YARA, and threat modeling
Hands-on technical contributor with demonstrated ability to execute and deliver engineering projects impacting security posture in complex and fast-changing environments
Experience designing, coding, and deploying security solutions, comfortable with Python and at least one of: Java, Go, C++, JavaScript, Rust, SQL, or TypeScript
Practical skills with security tools and scripting: you design, build, and maintain solutions, not just click in a UI
Experience writing or refining detection logic for SIEM, EDR, NDR, WAF, or similar, and a record of tuning signals and controls for high fidelity and low noise through real-world testing and iteration
Proven ability to analyze and defend modern cloud and on-premises environments: you know how to break and fix systems, leveraging tools like CloudTrail, Security Hub, etc
Track record of hands-on threat hunting and incident response, using your engineering skill to create new detections and automate investigation processes
In-depth knowledge of attacker TTPs and a technical mindset for designing countermeasures that can be implemented and measured
Thrives in a team environment, supporting and mentoring peers with your engineering experience, and eager to tackle the next technical challenge
Benefits
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Short & Long Term Disability
Life Insurance
401k with company match
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Company
Lantern
Lantern is the specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$93MKey Investors
Insight PartnersDundon Capital PartnersTEXO Ventures
2023-12-19Secondary Market· $92M
2020-10-27Series Unknown
2016-01-12Series C
Leadership Team
John Zutter
Chief Executive Officer
Fiona Mulligan
Chief Operating Officer
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