Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer

Now Available: Active Cyber Insurance for Enterprises Find Out More

About the role Join Coalition's Threat Intelligence team to identify emerging vulnerabilities and exploitation activity before they cause loss for policyholders. You'll lead key parts of the Zero-Day Alert process and build the detections, honeypots, and first-party threat intelligence behind Coalition's Active Insurance platform, working across Security, Underwriting, Incident Response, Product, and Data Engineering.

Responsibilities

Drive the Zero-Day Alert process from vulnerability triage to actionable policyholder notification

Coordinate urgent outreach with the Security Support Center, Underwriting, and Incident Response for high-severity or actively exploited vulnerabilities

Write and refine technology fingerprints, detection rules, and security findings that turn scan data into reliable risk signals

Maintain and expand the distributed honeypot network, analyzing telemetry for exploitation and new adversary techniques

Improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives using claims insights, external datasets, and vulnerability research

Publish advisories, research, and briefings that inform security decisions

Participate in the on-call rotation for emergency notifications

Skills and Qualifications

5+ years in threat intelligence, vulnerability research, pen testing, or defensive security engineering

Deep knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, web apps, and exploitation (RCE, auth bypass, edge-device vulnerabilities)

Experience assessing new vulnerabilities under time pressure and translating them into practical enterprise risk

Experience with honeypots, deception tech, or internet-wide scanning and other large security datasets

Strong Python and SQL skills

Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

A track record of clear documentation or public security writing, plus the judgment to lead complex work independently

Bonus Points

Experience with Censys, Shodan, BinaryEdge, or attack surface mapping

Reverse engineering, patch diffing, or PoC exploit verification

Familiarity with VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, or SCADA/ICS

Public research, CVE credits, or conference talks

Knowledge of cyber insurance, underwriting, or risk aggregation modeling

100% medical, dental and vision coverage

Flexible PTO policy

Annual home office stipend and WeWork access

Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Why Coalition? Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition's exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We're always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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