Senior Threat Research Engineer – Taiwan

Obsidian Security
Taipei
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Communication","Written communication","Verbal communication","Mentoring","Collaboration","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead detection engineering in Taiwan by researching cloud, identity, and SaaS threats and translating attacker behaviors into production-ready detections. Build threat models and author/test/maintain detection rules and behavioral detection models, defining the telemetry and context needed for effective correlation. Partner with Security Research, Product, platform, data, and Customer Success to validate outcomes, improve detection quality, manage the detection lifecycle, and grow unified global coverage.

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Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security
6 days ago

Senior Threat Research Engineer – Taiwan

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Job Summary

Lead detection engineering in Taiwan by researching cloud, identity, and SaaS threats and translating attacker behaviors into production-ready detections. Build threat models and author/test/maintain detection rules and behavioral detection models, defining the telemetry and context needed for effective correlation. Partner with Security Research, Product, platform, data, and Customer Success to validate outcomes, improve detection quality, manage the detection lifecycle, and grow unified global coverage.
Location: Taipei
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work within the detection engineering function in Taiwan, including technical direction, operating model, quality standards, and hiring plan.
  • •Research cloud, identity, and SaaS threats and translate attacker behaviors into actionable detection opportunities.
  • •Develop threat models covering attack paths, adversary techniques, identity misuse, suspicious activity, and control failures.
  • •Design, author, test, and maintain detection rules and behavioral detection models, including defining telemetry/enrichment/correlation and historical context.
  • •Investigate false positives and false negatives to improve detection logic and underlying data quality, and measure precision/recall/explainability and customer value.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience in detection engineering, threat research, security analytics, incident response, threat hunting, or a closely related security discipline.
  • •Experience leading security research/detection initiatives and mentoring other practitioners.
  • •Strong knowledge of attacker behavior, identity threats, cloud security, and modern enterprise SaaS environments.
  • •Demonstrated experience developing production detections using rules, queries, correlations, statistical methods, or behavioral models.
  • •Strong data analysis skills, including proficiency with relevant query/scripting/programming languages.
Experience:Security analyticsThreat researchIncident responseThreat huntingSaaS security
Skills:CommunicationWritten communicationVerbal communicationMentoringCollaborationCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English

Company Brief

Obsidian Security
Provides cloud-native security solutions that detect and respond to identity- and configuration-based threats across SaaS, IaaS, and cloud identity platforms. Focuses on discovering risky exposures, prioritizing alerts, and enabling remediation for enterprise cloud environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
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