Senior Threat Engineer

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.   

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

About the role

A Senior Threat Engineer builds and improves systems, logic, and workflows that allow Coalition’s Wirespeed Verdict Engine to make high-precision security decisions at scale.

Disclaimer: This is not a traditional SOC analyst role.

Success in this position is not defined by working one alert at a time, but by figuring out how to handle thousands of similar situations better, faster, and more consistently through automation, patterning, and engineering. Key focus will be studying how investigations should work, identifying repeatable decision points, and turning that thinking into detections, enrichment, triage logic, and automated response workflows.

As a senior member of the team, you'll be expected to take ownership of complex problem areas, exercise strong judgment in ambiguous situations, and help shape how the broader Threat Engineering function operates. This role is for someone who can bridge threat detection, engineering, and customer experience. Its ideal for someone who is more interesting asking, “How should this entire class of problem be solved?” rather than, “How do I close the next alert in the queue?”

If you are excited by designing systems that scale expert judgment, improving both customer outcomes and operational efficiency, and doing work that looks very different from a conventional analyst job, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and improve the detection, decisioning, and response workflows that power the Wirespeed Verdict Engine

Own complex threat detection and workflow problem spaces from investigation concept through implementation, validation, and iteration

Translate investigative thinking and threat research into scalable detections, enrichment, triage logic, and automated decisions that improve speed, accuracy, reliability, and customer outcomes

Analyze operational data to identify false positives, false negatives, latency issues, and opportunities to improve how entire categories of work are handled

Continuously raise the ceiling of what the system can do autonomously, reducing manual review while improving service quality and consistency

Support especially complex or novel cases when needed, then feed those lessons back into the system so similar situations can be handled better in the future

Keep the customer experience front and center by ensuring Wirespeed outputs are clear, helpful, accurate, and appropriately calibrated to the customer’s situation

Identify patterns in customer pain, confusion, or friction and use those insights to improve verdict logic, response content, and overall product behavior

Partner closely with product, engineering, and security teams to improve platform capabilities, data quality, and operational leverage

Help define best practices, operating principles, and technical standards for Threat Engineering work

Document detection concepts, workflow logic, and operating principles so the team can scale knowledge

Provide technical leadership through strong execution, sound judgment, and mentorship of less experienced teammates

Skills and Qualifications

Significant experience in cybersecurity operations such as threat detection and response, detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, or SOC operations

You look for repeatable patterns, clear decision logic, and ways to scale good judgment through automation rather than repeated manual work

Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous signals and messy operational problems into practical detection logic and workflow improvements

Experience building, tuning, or maintaining automations, detections, playbooks, rules, or enrichment pipelines in security tooling

Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical or operational problem areas, step into ambiguity, and drive them to better outcomes

Interest in work that is different from a traditional analyst role: improving how work gets done rather than only executing it yourself

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document logic and explain threats, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to customers and internal partnersAbility to work closely with product, engineering, and security stakeholders

Comfort using data to evaluate detection quality, workflow performance, and where the system needs improvement

Preference for simple, scalable solutions and willingness to reduce unnecessary complexity or manual work

Bonus Points 

Experience working in high-volume security operations environment

Significant experience with detection and response tooling such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, case management, and telemetry enrichment systems

Familiarity writing scripts or queries to support investigations, automation, or workflow analysis

Experience improving operational quality through experimentation, measurement, and continuous iteration

Experience in workflow design, detection engineering, automation, or security product development

Experience mentoring fellow engineers, setting technical direction, or influencing how a team approaches detection and response problems

Compensation

As a remote-first organization, our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several Canadian geographic markets. 

In Alberta, British Columbia & Ontario the base salary for this position ranges from $118,600/year up to $148,250/year. 

For all other locations, the base salary for this position ranges from $106,700/year up to $133,425/year.

Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your Recruiter can share more on the specific target salary range for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Use of AI:  We utilize AI-assisted tools to help us organize and review the high volume of applications we receive. However, our human recruiting team makes all final hiring decisions and interview selections, valuing personal connection over algorithms.

Application Updates: Consistent with our commitment to transparency, if you are interviewed for this role, we will provide a status update on your application within 45 days of your final interview.

Perks

100% medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Annual home office stipend and WeWork access

Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition? 

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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