Security Engineer II, Uppercase Research

This role is based in Austin, TX.

Compensation:

$123,000-$174,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Responsibilities:

• Conduct technical threat actor behavior analysis and perform in-depth research into emerging threat activity.
• Work with partner teams across Google to discover and implement new detection capabilities.
• Write and optimize YARA-L rules to track and identify potentially malicious behavior.
• Maintain and scale detection engineering processes and tooling as needed.
• Innovate detection engineering strategies by leveraging LLM-based technologies and AI agents.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• Experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in security research, detection engineering, or adjacent work.
• Experience with signals development, threat hunting, and threat modeling on cloud data sources.
• Experience with security analysis tooling, including cloud audit logs and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).