Senior Security Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 3, 2026.
About Dropzone AI
Dropzone’s mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists. Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, and AI augmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground. We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.
Powered by Gen AI advancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects. We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and SaaS product development. Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using Gen AI to transform cyber defense. Learn more at www.dropzone.ai.
About the role
The Security Engineer will own investigation quality and be primarily responsible for ensuring that our AI SOC Analyst is generating accurate, timely reports. This role is pivotal in continuing to maintain and expand our investigation quality lead over the competition.
What you'll do
- Build into and improve the product by writing investigation flows, building integrations with security tools, and fixing bugs.
- Evolve the investigation logic and pipelines to handle new classes of security alerts, balancing accuracy, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute directly to our Python codebase while influencing architectural decisions and long-term product strategy
- Review and analyze investigations performed by our AI to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement, and then translate those insights into product enhancements.
- Partner with GTM and customer success teams to influence technical direction, prioritize features, and ensure we’re solving the most impactful problems for defenders
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
- Periodically participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
Requirements
- 6+ years in software development or security engineering
- Strong experience writing production Python code
- Strong experience writing detections, working on a SOAR team, working on a Detection and Response or threat hunting team, or building security tooling or security products
- Understanding of modern security best practices, investigation techniques, and threat hunting techniques
- Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity, move with lightspeed execution, and can translate ambiguity into shipped features that move the business forward
Work Environment/Travel
We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.
Compensation
In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition, all compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we believe in rewarding long term value creation. If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.
The pay range for this role is:
$175,000—$217,000 USD