Senior Director, Security & Compliance

Why You’ll Love This Role

The Senior Director of Security will lead and manage the strategy, development, and optimization of the company's global security detection and response capabilities. This role is responsible for architecting high-fidelity, scalable detection logic across the cloud-based and corporate infrastructure to proactively identify and disrupt sophisticated threats. The ideal candidate has experience building and maturing a detection-as-code program in a high-growth, fast-paced environment and a deep understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). As a leader foster trust and partnerships between Compliance, Product Security, Engineering, Product, IT, and other divisions.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

• Detection Strategy & Architecture: Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the security detection program, ensuring alignment with the company’s risk posture and business objectives
• Detection Engineering Lifecycle: Oversee the development, testing, deployment, and continuous maintenance of all detection logic (rules, models, baselines) across SIEM, EDR, and other security platforms
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of security operators, engineers, and threat hunters
• Threat Intelligence Operationalization: Translate emerging threat data and intelligence into actionable, automated, and preventative detection controls.
• Security Platform Optimization: Drive the architecture and continuous tuning of the security monitoring and detection platforms (e.g., SIEM, data pipelines) for coverage, performance, and cost-effectiveness
• Threat Hunting: Establish and formalize a proactive threat hunting capability to identify threats that evade existing security controls
• Compliance: Ensure detection and monitoring operations are compliant with global standards and regulations, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and FedRAMP
• Technology Integration: Partner with internal engineering teams to integrate detection controls directly into cloud infrastructure and corporate environments.
• Communication: Serve as a key point of contact to provide executive leadership with a clear view of the company's detection coverage and maturity.
• We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones – you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a dedicated focus on building and scaling advanced security detection and threat hunting programs.
• Proven experience in a leadership role, building and managing Detections Engineering or Threat Hunting teams.
• Deep expertise in detection engineering principles, adversary tactics (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK), and advanced log source analysis.
• Expert-level knowledge of SIEM architecture (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel), EDR technologies, and cloud-native detection tools (AWS GuardDuty, GCP Security Command Center, Azure Security Center).
• Proficiency in scripting or coding (e.g., Python, KQL, SPL) for detection rule development and automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure) and developing detections for cloud-native threats.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex detection strategies to technical and executive audiences.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., GIAC GDSA, GCFA, CISSP) are a plus.

Salary Range ($162,000 - $253,000)

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.

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