Detection Engineering Lead – Taiwan

Obsidian Security
Taipei
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Technical communication","Data analysis","Cross-regional collaboration","Scientific rigor","Continuous improvement"]

Establish and lead detection engineering capabilities in Taiwan for a SaaS security platform. Translate cloud, identity, and SaaS threats into production-quality detections using threat modeling, telemetry design, rule authoring, testing frameworks, and ongoing tuning. Collaborate with security research, product, platform, data engineering, and customer success to improve detection quality (precision/recall/explainability), reduce false positives/negatives, and rapidly expand coverage against emerging attacker techniques.

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Detection Engineering Lead – Taiwan

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Job Summary

Establish and lead detection engineering capabilities in Taiwan for a SaaS security platform. Translate cloud, identity, and SaaS threats into production-quality detections using threat modeling, telemetry design, rule authoring, testing frameworks, and ongoing tuning. Collaborate with security research, product, platform, data engineering, and customer success to improve detection quality (precision/recall/explainability), reduce false positives/negatives, and rapidly expand coverage against emerging attacker techniques.
Location: Taipei
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Establish and lead 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, including threat model development.
  • •Design, author, test, and maintain detection rules and behavioral detection models.
  • •Build the telemetry, enrichment, correlation, and historical context needed for effective detections by partnering with platform and data engineering.
  • •Drive detection lifecycle management: develop testing/coverage frameworks, measure quality (precision/recall/explainability/performance), investigate false positives/negatives, and continuously improve detection logic and data quality.

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 or 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 and proficiency with relevant query, scripting, or programming languages.
Experience:SaaS securityCloud securityIdentity securitySecurity analyticsIncident response
Skills:LeadershipMentoringTechnical communicationData analysisCross-regional collaborationScientific rigorContinuous improvement
Languages:EnglishMandarin
Tech Stack:OAuthSIEMUEBAEDRXDRMITRE ATT&CKDetection-as-codeCloud telemetryAudit eventsAuthentication activityIdentity dataApplication logs

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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