Senior Threat Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Location, WV, USA
Remote
100K-150K Annually
Senior level
Insurance • Cybersecurity
The Role
Design and implement scalable detections, enrichment, triage logic, and automated response workflows for the Wirespeed Verdict Engine. Own complex detection problem areas from concept through implementation, analyze operational data to reduce false positives/negatives and latency, support novel cases, partner with product and engineering, document processes, and mentor teammates to raise automation and operational quality.
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About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.   

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the role

A Senior Threat Engineer builds and improves systems, logic, and workflows that allow Coalition’s Wirespeed Verdict Engine to make high-precision security decisions at scale.

Disclaimer: This is not a traditional SOC analyst role.

Success in this position is not defined by working one alert at a time, but by figuring out how to handle thousands of similar situations better, faster, and more consistently through automation, patterning, and engineering. Key focus will be studying how investigations should work, identifying repeatable decision points, and turning that thinking into detections, enrichment, triage logic, and automated response workflows.

As a senior member of the team, you'll be expected to take ownership of complex problem areas, exercise strong judgment in ambiguous situations, and help shape how the broader Threat Engineering function operates. This role is for someone who can bridge threat detection, engineering, and customer experience. Its ideal for someone who is more interesting asking, “How should this entire class of problem be solved?” rather than, “How do I close the next alert in the queue?”

If you are excited by designing systems that scale expert judgment, improving both customer outcomes and operational efficiency, and doing work that looks very different from a conventional analyst job, this role is for you.

Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and improve the detection, decisioning, and response workflows that power the Wirespeed Verdict Engine
  • Own complex threat detection and workflow problem spaces from investigation concept through implementation, validation, and iteration
  • Translate investigative thinking and threat research into scalable detections, enrichment, triage logic, and automated decisions that improve speed, accuracy, reliability, and customer outcomes
  • Analyze operational data to identify false positives, false negatives, latency issues, and opportunities to improve how entire categories of work are handled
  • Continuously raise the ceiling of what the system can do autonomously, reducing manual review while improving service quality and consistency
  • Support especially complex or novel cases when needed, then feed those lessons back into the system so similar situations can be handled better in the future
  • Keep the customer experience front and center by ensuring Wirespeed outputs are clear, helpful, accurate, and appropriately calibrated to the customer’s situation
  • Identify patterns in customer pain, confusion, or friction and use those insights to improve verdict logic, response content, and overall product behavior
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, and security teams to improve platform capabilities, data quality, and operational leverage
  • Help define best practices, operating principles, and technical standards for Threat Engineering work
  • Document detection concepts, workflow logic, and operating principles so the team can scale knowledge
  • Provide technical leadership through strong execution, sound judgment, and mentorship of less experienced teammates
Skills and Qualifications
  • Significant experience in cybersecurity operations such as threat detection and response, detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, or SOC operations
  • You look for repeatable patterns, clear decision logic, and ways to scale good judgment through automation rather than repeated manual work
  • Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous signals and messy operational problems into practical detection logic and workflow improvements
  • Experience building, tuning, or maintaining automations, detections, playbooks, rules, or enrichment pipelines in security tooling
  • Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical or operational problem areas, step into ambiguity, and drive them to better outcomes
  • Interest in work that is different from a traditional analyst role: improving how work gets done rather than only executing it yourself
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document logic and explain threats, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to customers and internal partnersAbility to work closely with product, engineering, and security stakeholders
  • Comfort using data to evaluate detection quality, workflow performance, and where the system needs improvement
  • Preference for simple, scalable solutions and willingness to reduce unnecessary complexity or manual work

Bonus Points 

  • Experience working in high-volume security operations environment
  • Significant experience with detection and response tooling such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, case management, and telemetry enrichment systems
  • Familiarity writing scripts or queries to support investigations, automation, or workflow analysis
  • Experience improving operational quality through experimentation, measurement, and continuous iteration
  • Experience in workflow design, detection engineering, automation, or security product development
  • Experience mentoring fellow engineers, setting technical direction, or influencing how a team approaches detection and response problems
Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $100,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $150,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks
  • 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
  • Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition? 

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable. Information submitted, collected, and processed as part of your application is subject to Coalition's Privacy Policy. For further details, please review our full Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions regarding how your information is handled.

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All legitimate communication from Coalition comes from @coalitioninc.com emails, and open roles are listed only on our Careers page. We never ask for payment, banking details, or personal identification before an offer is accepted through our secure systems. If you believe you’ve been a victim of fraudulent recruiting, follow guidance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.

Accommodations

Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Skills Required

  • Significant experience in cybersecurity operations (threat detection and response, detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, or SOC operations)
  • Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical or operational problem areas and drive them to better outcomes
  • Experience building, tuning, or maintaining automations, detections, playbooks, rules, or enrichment pipelines in security tooling
  • Strong investigative and analytical skills to turn ambiguous signals into practical detection logic and workflow improvements
  • Strong written and verbal communication and documentation skills; ability to explain threats, tradeoffs, and outcomes to customers and internal partners
  • Comfort using data to evaluate detection quality, workflow performance, and identify system improvements
  • Experience working in high-volume security operations environments
  • Experience with detection and response tooling such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, case management, and telemetry enrichment systems
  • Familiarity writing scripts or queries to support investigations, automation, or workflow analysis
  • Experience improving operational quality through experimentation, measurement, and iteration
  • Experience in workflow design, detection engineering, automation, or security product development
  • Experience mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, or influencing detection and response approaches

Coalition Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Coalition and has not been reviewed or approved by Coalition.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives Incentive structures are described as performance-based, including profit sharing and mechanisms that can materially boost earnings for high performers. Feedback suggests these incentives meaningfully augment base pay for those who excel.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive for employees, complemented by wellness resources and accounts that support medical spending. Feedback suggests this breadth of coverage enhances overall perceived total rewards.
  • Flexible Benefits Remote-first flexibility, home office support, and access to coworking spaces complement core compensation. Feedback suggests these benefits contribute to work-life balance and increase the value of the total package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
618 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Coalition is the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Coalition’s unique product offerings combine best-in-class insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help keep businesses safe.

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