Sr. Staff Product Security Engineer- Eng

Why UKG:

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters-and so do you.

Description:

As a Sr. Staff Detection Engineer, you will be part of UKG's Global Security Detection Engineering team. This global team is responsible for detecting and responding to sophisticated cyber threats and attacks. In your role you will leverage a variety of tools and resources to proactively detect, investigate, and respond to emerging and/or persistent threats impacting UKG and/or its customers.

Responsibilities:

You will be providing hands-on solutions, customization and tuning, automation, and use case development for the SIEM, SOAR, Agentic AI and other stakeholder requirements for threat informed defense strategies

You will support leading production level projects to completion as a contributor and a collaborator between multiple stakeholder teams including the Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Incident Response

You will be working on a globally distributed team and expected to create and present strategies, technical plans, and architecture to audiences of technical and executive leadership levels when asked.

You will also maintain existing internal code, use cases, and further extend SIEM and SOAR integrations aligned to the Detection Engineering program efforts

You will design and engineer Security Operations focused integrations and automations including diagrams, documentation, and threat modeling of what is built

You will support the Director of Detection Engineering in directly enhancing the strategic capabilities of the program through complex technical projects

Qualifications:

The ability to lead complex projects, other team members, and support building strategic and technical initiatives

8+ years of security and hands on technical automation experience, with 5 or more of those years focused on creating use cases and detection focused automation

5-7 years of operational experience working directly with or in security operational teams including: SOC, Threat Intelligence , and Incident Response

Deep understanding of SIEM, SOAR, Agentic AI development, or MLOps and other engineering best practices, limitations, and ways of extending or customizing threat detection automation related use cases

Demonstrable hands-on skills in a major scripting/programming language or a search query language for use in security operations and threat detection

Experience with a major public cloud service provider (CSP) required

Google SecOps (Chronicle) or Splunk Experience preferred

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

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The pay range for this position is $163,900.00 to $235,550.00. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at