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SOC Engineer - 3 Detection Engineering, Incident Leadership & Operational Excellence Location: Bangalore (Work From Office) Reports to: CISO Cashfree Payments operates mission-critical payment and API infrastructure under RBI and PCI-DSS oversight. Our environment processes high-volume financial transactions and demands high-fidelity detection, rapid response, and operational resilience. We are building an automation-driven SOC designed to scale beyond traditional monitoring models. Role Summary The SOC Engineer - 3 is a senior, hands-on technical expert pivotal in accelerating the defensive posture and operational maturity of the Cashfree Payments SOC. This role moves beyond traditional monitoring, focusing instead on Detection Engineering, Incident Response Leadership, and operational scaling within our high-volume, regulated Fintech workplace. We are looking for a system-thinker and builder who can autonomously architect scalable, automation-driven security solutions. Key Responsibilities Detection and Threat Engineering Architect, develop, implement, and continually tune detection rules and correlation logic across SIEM and EDR platforms. Proactively identify and remediate detection gaps, mapping coverage to the MITRE ATT&CK; framework and leveraging threat intelligence, with a special focus on cloud (AWS), containerized (Kubernetes), and payment systems. Implement advanced contextual alerting and enrichment strategies to drastically reduce false positive rates and combat alert fatigue. Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven hunting exercises across diverse telemetry sources (cloud, network, endpoint) to uncover covert threats. Incident Response Leadership & Handling Function as the primary technical lead for high-severity and complex security incidents, driving effective containment, eradication, and recovery strategies. Execute in-depth log analysis, digital forensics triage, and timeline reconstruction to determine the root cause and scope of .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.