Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats

Remote: yes Posted: 2026-05-11

- Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap

- Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis

- Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis

- Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services

- Perform security forensics

- Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale

- Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research

- Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation

- Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity

- Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

Performance Measurement

- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense’s product, environment, systems, and architecture

- Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels

- Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation

- Mitigates security exposures

- Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs

- Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects

- Executes on milestones associated with major security projects

- Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards

- Provides project status updates on a weekly basis