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The role provides the data and analytics foundation used by Security Operations while extending traditional SIEM capabilities through behavioral analytics, automation, AI-assisted correlation, and observability for autonomous and agentic systems.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and operate scalable security analytics platforms and telemetry pipelines.\nIntegrate, normalize, enrich, and correlate telemetry from endpoint, identity, cloud, application, infrastructure, network, and AI-enabled systems.\nDevelop and tune behavioral detections, correlation logic, dashboards, and alerting strategies.\nTranslate threat intelligence, incidents, vulnerability findings, and offensive-security results into improved detection content.\nBuild observability for AI agents and autonomous workflows, including identity, tool usage, execution activity, and security-relevant behavior.\nApply AI-assisted techniques to log analysis, correlation, anomaly detection, enrichment, and investigation support.\nAutomate telemetry management and security workflows while maintaining appropriate human oversight and explainability.\nOptimize SIEM and related systems platform reliability, data quality, performance, retention, and cost.\nQualifications\nExperience engineering SIEM, security analytics, detection, observability, or large-scale telemetry systems.\nStrong knowledge of logging, event correlation, normalization, enrichment, and security data pipelines.\nExperience developing detections, behavioral analytics, or correlation logic.\nExperience integrating security telemetry from diverse enterprise and cloud environments.\nScripting or software-development experience and familiarity with APIs and Infrastructure-as-Code.\nUnderstanding of modern cloud and distributed architectures.\nFamiliarity with security telemetry standards, MITRE ATT&CK, AI-assisted analytics, or observability of AI/agentic systems is preferred.\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. 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