Senior Application Threat Detection Engineer
Security
We are seeking a Senior Application Threat Detection Engineer to join the Platform Security Group.
This is a senior, hands-on role with end-to-end ownership over application layer threat detection in a high-scale SaaS environment. The role combines real-time alert triage, deep application security expertise, data-driven detection engineering and production-grade development.
You will identify, investigate, and mitigate threats across the application and API layers while building scalable detection mechanisms using large-scale telemetry and behavioral analysis.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Application Threat Detection Engineer to join the Platform Security Group.
This is a senior, hands-on role with end-to-end ownership over application layer threat detection in a high-scale SaaS environment. The role combines real-time alert triage, deep application security expertise, data-driven detection engineering and production-grade development.
You will identify, investigate, and mitigate threats across the application and API layers while building scalable detection mechanisms using large-scale telemetry and behavioral analysis.
Detection Ownership & Alert Triage
- Own security alerts from triage through investigation and resolution.
- Lead technical analysis of suspicious activity and potential incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis across application, API and behavioral layers.
- Improve detection coverage and reduce false positives using data-driven refinement.
Application Security & Threat Detection
- Design and implement detections for API abuse and misuse, Account Takeover (ATO), Authorization bypass attempts, Bot and automation abuse
- Conduct proactive threat hunting across large-scale telemetry datasets.
- Translate findings into scalable, production-ready detection logic.
Data & Detection Engineering
- Write complex, performance-optimized SQL queries on large datasets.
- Build detection logic leveraging historical state and behavioral patterns.
- Design and improve data pipelines supporting security analytics.
- Ensure data integrity, validation and operational reliability.
Development & Automation
- Develop internal services, automation frameworks and detection tooling.
- Contribute production-grade code in Python and/or JavaScript.
- Integrate detection logic into enforcement and mitigation systems.
Your Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of experience
- Advanced SQL proficiency (mandatory).
- Solid programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript (mandatory).
- Solid Application Security experience, API security and application-layer threat detection.
- Experience building or implementing security detections.
- Experience triaging and investigating security alerts in production environments.
- Exposure to behavioral detection or ML-based detection systems.
Advantages
- Experience working in a SaaS company.
- Hands-on experience deploying and tuning WAF solutions.
- Development experience in backend services or production systems.
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS/GCP).
- Background in leading initiatives or mentoring others.
We believe in equal opportunity.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
At monday.com, we believe everyone should feel they belong - exactly as they are. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to an open, accessible, and inclusive workplace free from discrimination or harassment of any kind.
All qualified candidates will be considered for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need support or accommodation during the hiring process, we’re here to help.
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