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About the Role
Join Upwind's MDR team as the founding U.S. member of the Security organization. Focus on proactive reviews, provide advanced guidance to customers, and own U.S.-hours coverage. This role offers a clear path toward technical or team leadership as the U.S. presence scales.
Responsibilities
- Assist in fine-tuning Upwind's detection and response mechanisms.
- Support proactive reviews of customer environments to identify risks, exposed attack surfaces, and recommend improvements.
- Lead and conduct in-depth security investigations, documenting outcomes and developing playbooks.
- Collaborate with Security Analysts, Research, and Backend teams to enhance detection quality.
- Own the handling of complex or critical incidents escalated from Tier 1/2.
- Participate in recurring customer meetings, translating security findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Stay up to date with emerging threats, attack techniques, attack surfaces, and best practices in cloud security.
- Contribute to the development and training of AI-driven detection models.
Requirements
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation, including nights, weekends, or holidays.
- Solid, hands-on experience in cybersecurity, ideally from a leading cloud or cloud security company.
- Strong working knowledge of detection engineering, incident response, and threat analysis.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Comfortable and hands-on with Linux; Windows knowledge is a plus.
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals and scripting (Python/Bash).
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to engage directly with customers.
- Self-directed and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment.
- Curiosity, problem-solving mindset, and a genuine personal interest in security.
Skills
- Cloud Security
- Detection Engineering
- Incident Response
- Threat Analysis
- Supply Chain Security
- API Security
- Malware Analysis
- Runtime Security
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Python
- Bash
- Communication
- Presentation
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-call rotation
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Education Level
- B.Sc. in Computer Science / Information Security is an advantage
About the Company
- Upwind is a next-generation Cloud Security Platform that leverages runtime context to identify and prioritize critical risks, providing precise insights and efficient cloud security management.
- Upwind uses runtime data proactively for risk prioritization and posture insights, ensuring teams focus on what truly matters.
- Upwind has industry-leading efficiency and eBPF-powered sensors, delivering comprehensive capabilities including agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security.
- Upwind ensures end-to-end, cost-effective cloud infrastructure protection.