Senior Staff Threat Hunter – Intelligence Engineer

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Senior Staff Threat Hunter at Databricks leveraging advanced threat hunting across multi-cloud environments. Defining strategy, mentoring teams, and architecting scalable security solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Define the strategic vision and roadmap for a structured, repeatable threat hunting program using hypothesis-driven methodologies aligned with industry frameworks.
  • Develop Databricks-based hunting capabilities and logic to analyse security telemetry at a massive scale across our multi-cloud environment.
  • Build reusable hunting notebooks and automated intelligence pipelines using Databricks workflows.
  • Serve as the technical authority for threat hunting across Security, influencing detection strategy and incident response capabilities.
  • Mentor and develop threat hunting capabilities across the security organization.
  • Operationalize threat intelligence from multiple sources into actionable hunting hypotheses.
  • Work with internal partners to develop and maintain Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs).
  • Build automated enrichment pipelines using Databricks to correlate intelligence with internal telemetry.
  • Produce intelligence assessments on threats relevant to our business.
  • Represent Databricks in external security communities and industry working groups on advanced threat topics.
  • Architect scalable hunting infrastructure using Databricks notebooks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
  • Develop libraries of reusable detection logic and hunting queries optimized for distributed computing.
  • Build automated workflows for threat intelligence ingestion, enrichment, and correlation.
  • Create dashboards and visualizations for threat exposure and hunt findings.
  • Integrate security tools with Databricks platform.

Requirements:

  • 12+ years in cybersecurity with 6+ years focused on threat hunting, threat intelligence, or detection engineering.
  • Deep expertise with nation-state and e-crime threat actors’ TTPs, trends, and historical targets.
  • Experience working with large-scale security datasets and big data platforms.
  • Strong Python programming experience with a background in PySpark, distributed computing frameworks, or Databricks’ platform.
  • Deep understanding of cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP—including cloud-native logging, security controls, and container/Kubernetes security.
  • Strong knowledge of OS internals across macOS, Linux, and containerized environments.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale software development practices including infrastructure-as-code, code review, and large codebase management.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting hypothesis-driven threat hunts with measurable outcomes.
  • Experience defining and driving multi-year security program strategy.
  • Thought leadership around the application of cybersecurity frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND.
  • Applied CTI skills including consuming and operationalizing IOCs/TTPs, tracking campaigns, and conducting research.
  • Experience influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate team.
  • A track record of mentoring Staff+ engineers.

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options