Senior Engineer - Threat Hunting

Cboe Global Markets

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$130,900–$169,400 / yr
Posted
2 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $150k
$121k most similar roles pay here $224k

This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$214,100 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $150k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Cboe Global Markets

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. is a leading global provider of financial exchange operator services, clearinghouse, and investment solutions.

Cboe Global Markets currently has 19 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,000–$154,000 across 19 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer - Threat Hunting

As a Senior Engineer Threat Hunting at Cboe, you will join the Security Operations team as a senior individual contributor, focusing on defining and executing the enterprise approach to detection engineering, threat hunting, and adversary emulation. Your daily responsibilities include building and maturing detection capabilities across platforms like SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments, ensuring detections are resilient and scalable. You will lead complex threat hunts, design adversary emulation scenarios, and translate findings into durable detections and architectural enhancements. The role requires deep expertise in attacker tradecraft, proficiency with tools such as Google SecOps, Defender XDR, and Crowdstrike, and the ability to communicate technical risk effectively to senior leaders. Ideal candidates have 5-8+ years of cybersecurity experience, strong scripting skills, and certifications like CISSP or CASP.

What you'll do

  • Own the enterprise detection engineering capability end-to-end, setting standards and long-term technical direction.
  • Design and implement high-fidelity detections across various security platforms like SIEM, EDR, and cloud environments.
  • Lead complex threat hunts to address ambiguous risks and novel attacker behavior within the organization.
  • Translate threat hunting outcomes into durable detections, improved telemetry, or architectural enhancements for better defense.
  • Partner with stakeholders to design and execute adversary emulation scenarios validating detection and response effectiveness.

What we're looking for

  • 5-8+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, or offensive security
  • Deep expertise in attacker tradecraft, adversary behaviors, and defensive techniques across multiple domains
  • Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, cloud security platforms, and large-scale log analytics
  • Proven ability to solve ambiguous, systemic security problems independently
  • Experience balancing hands-on execution with strategic influence over security operations
  • Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical risks to senior leaders
  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science and relevant certifications like CISSP or CASP

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