Director of Forward Deployed Engineering

The role

This Director owns the foundational delivery of the MDR service by building, deploying, managing, and integrating platforms including Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform. The role involves leading an engineering team to ensure time-to-protection and repeatable multi-SIEM delivery at scale.

What you will do

• Own time-to-protection across supported platforms
• Lead multi-SIEM engineering including pipelines, parsers, detections, and playbooks
• Own integrations including data-source onboarding, connector/API work, and normalization
• Own context engineering including data mappings, entity resolution, and tuning
• Own ongoing platform management, health, optimization, and lifecycle
• Build the repeatable delivery machine using playbooks, intake, and quality gates
• Lead and scale the team by hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
• Run cross-team interfaces with customer success, product management, threat intelligence, and cyber defense

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering
• 3+ years managing engineers
• Hands-on depth across Google SecOps (Chronicle — ingestion, parsers/CBN, YARA-L, entity graph) and Microsoft Sentinel (KQL, analytics rules, data connectors, Log Analytics) or deep in one and strongly
• Integration engineering including data-source onboarding, connector/API development, and normalization
• Demonstrated track record building repeatable delivery at scale
• Strong customer-facing communication
• Comfort with multi-tenant delivery and content-as-code / CI/CD workflows
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Nice to have

• SOAR / automation (Chronicle SOAR, Sentinel automation rules & playbooks)
• Pipeline and telemetry tooling (Bindplane, Logstash, or equivalent)
• Terraform / IaC for repeatable environment standup
• Prior MSSP / MDR / managed security services experience
• Experience operating alongside agentic and advisory functions without absorbing their scope
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, Google Cloud Professional, Microsoft SC-200/AZ-500, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms
• Collaborate with a talented and innovative team
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• A culture of growth and development

About the company

TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. It is a fast-growing startup backed by industry experts and top-tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital.