Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection and Response
Maleda Tech
$291,200–$332,800
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior contract role on a threat detection and response team, focused on investigating security incidents, hunting for threats across corporate and production environments, and building automated detection models. The work spans digital forensics, data analytics, scripting, and collaboration with engineering and cross-functional teams. Suited to an experienced security operations engineer comfortable leading investigations independently and at scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Contract
Pay in the description: $140–$160/hr
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 380–2,750
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This is a 12-month W2 contract role (with possible extension), starting July 2026, classified here as Contract accordingly.
Location is remote US-based; PST timezone is preferred but not a hard gate, so no specific CBSA is assigned.
Python is listed as the primary scripting language with 'or another scripting language' as an alternative, but SQL and pandas are called out as used frequently — all three are treated as hard requirements from the Qualifications section.
Elasticsearch and AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The alternative occupation runner-up (15-1299) reflects the detection engineering / threat hunting blend, which sits at the edge of security analysis and specialized security software work; 15-1212 is the clear primary.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): detection engineering.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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