Detection & CorpSec Engineer (Remote)

The role

This person will build and maintain detection systems and own corporate security controls for employee fleets and internal infrastructure. The role supports both Quora and Poe products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a SIEM to collect and analyze logs
• Write and deploy detections and alerts
• Design and deploy canary tokens and early warning mechanisms
• Investigate security incidents end-to-end
• Build runbooks to scale response capabilities
• Partner with IT to define and enforce security standards across the employee device fleet
• Drive the PoC and implementation of Zero-Trust VPN and other corporate security infrastructure
• Provide security guidance and advisory support to non-engineering functions

Required qualifications

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or a closely related field
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining SIEM infrastructure and writing detection rules
• Experience with endpoint security tools (e.g. CrowdStrike or similar EDR platforms)
• Strong Python engineering skills with a track record of writing production code reviewed and shipped alongside software engineering teams
• Experience conducting security incident investigations, including malware analysis, log review, and timeline reconstruction and threat modeling
• Experience with corporate security controls, identity management, endpoint protection, and access control enforcement

Nice to have

• Experience with SIEM/SOAR options such as Elastic/Splunk or alternatives
• Familiarity with identity platforms such as Okta
• Strong understanding of authentication technology such as OAuth, Yubikey and Passkey
• Experience with Zero-Trust network architecture or VPN implementation
• Demonstrated use of AI coding tools to build or automate security workflows
• Experience in a small security team or fast-paced startup environment
• Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native security tooling

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision coverage
• equity refreshers
• remote work reimbursement
• paid time off
• employee assistance programs

Before you apply

• Final candidates will undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check prior to onboarding

About the company

Quora is a privately held, remote-first company with two platforms: Quora, a global knowledge sharing platform, and Poe, a cloud workspace for running AI agents.