Principal Threat Hunter

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in New York, NY, USA
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Cybersecurity
The Role
Lead proactive threat hunts and complex incident investigations across cloud and SaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365). Convert intelligence into hunt leads, detections, and customer narratives; triage alerts, mentor peers, and act as Incident Commander when needed. Leverage automation and AI to scale detection and response and drive improvements to processes and tooling.
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Why Mitiga?

Mitiga preemptively detects and stops attacks before damage is done.Mitiga moves your security beyond configuration-focused prevention. In today’s cloud-first, AI-driven world, attackers inevitably get in. Mitiga promptly stops them.Our platform connects Cloud, SaaS, AI, and Identity into one panoramic forensic system that gives SecOps total awareness, attack decoding, and autonomous containment. The result: attacks stop mid-flight, investigations are instant, and impact disappears.We replace the false promise of “zero breach” with a promise we can keep - Zero Impact.

When attackers get in, Mitiga ensures they get nothing.

Zero Impact Breach Mitigation.Mitiga is used by many well-known brands to reduce risk, enhance their SecOps, and improve business resilience.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Principal Threat Hunter to serve as a senior technical leader within our Cyber Defense Team team.

This is a high impact individual contributor role, you won't manage people, but you'll influence how we hunt, investigate

and respond to threats across cloud and SaaS environments at scale.

You'll be the person who takes a weak signal, a piece of emerging intelligence, or an unusual customer activity pattern and turns it into a meaningful investigation, a proactive hunt, or a new detection opportunity.

You'll lead the most complex investigations, drive threat intelligence initiatives, and help define the hunting methodologies that guide our customers' security outcomes.

As one of the team's most senior practitioners, you'll act as a force multiplier across hunting, intelligence, and incident response functions, elevating technical standards, mentoring peers, and helping shape the future of our detection and response capabilities.



What You'll Do

- Design and execute proactive threat hunts across cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365), grounded in current intelligence and ATT&CK-mapped adversary behavior.

- Mature and operate a recurring threat intelligence reporting function, turning intel into hunt leads, detection opportunities, and customer-facing narratives.

- Lead incident response investigations during US business hours, from scoping through root cause; step into the Incident Commander role when required.

- Continuously monitor threat detections and deliver responsive services with thorough event analysis and judgement.

- Triage and investigate security alerts across cloud and SaaS environments, separating true threats from noise and surfacing detection gaps to the detection engineering team.

- Leverage automation and AI tooling to scale impact, and propose improvements for processes, workflows, products, and policies.

- PLUS: Exposure to detection engineering, tooling and automation development, or prior managed services (MSSP) experience.



Requirements

Who You Are

- 5+ years of experience in a security operations role, with a focus on threat hunting and/or threat intelligence

- Proven experience building or contributing to a structured threat hunt and/or threat intelligence program

- Incident response experience with the ability to lead investigations independently; Incident Commander experience a plus

- Working knowledge of cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365)

- Hands-on use of automation or AI tooling in security operations; demonstrated use, not just awareness

- Strong written and verbal communication, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, highly independent and self-driven, and comfortable in a fast-paced and virtual environment

Some More Details and Perks
  • Location: US Remote
  • Competitive benefits package including equity, health insurance (medical, dental, vision) that is fully covered for the employee, 401K plan with match, unlimited PTO and more.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years in a security operations role focused on threat hunting and/or threat intelligence
  • Proven experience building or contributing to a structured threat hunt and/or threat intelligence program
  • Incident response experience with ability to lead investigations independently
  • Incident Commander experience
  • Working knowledge of cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365)
  • Hands-on use of automation or AI tooling in security operations
  • Strong written and verbal communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, highly independent and self-driven
  • Exposure to detection engineering, tooling and automation development, or prior MSSP experience
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
87 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Mitiga’s cloud-oriented technology platform and its dynamic-readiness approach enable customers not only to rapidly complete the investigation, response, and recovery stages when a cloud security incident occurs, but also to increase their resiliency for a future attack. Mitiga Cloud Incident Response gets you back to business-as-usual right away. In the middle of an incident you need situational awareness, transparency in communications, and fast results. Mitiga provides quick and rapid recovery from any type of cyber breach. Mitiga Cloud Incident Readiness uses technology and services to build the cybersecurity resiliency of an organization. This prevents a breach from becoming a crisis, helping business continue as usual. During an active incident, subscribers to Mitiga Incident Readiness have unlimited active Incident Response.

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