SOC Engineer

🇺🇸 Kansas City, MO
Posted 1 week ago
Expires July 18, 2026

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation, and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the MDR landscape.

We’re a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investor Andreessen Horowitz. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.

Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.

As a SOC Engineer, you'll operate across incident response, platform quality, and operational improvement — evaluating telemetry coverage, shaping response automation, handling high-severity escalations, and ensuring the tooling and workflows analysts depend on are fit for purpose. The role carries direct engagement across internal engineering teams and customers, and no shortage of hard problems to solve. We default to automation and AI wherever they produce better outcomes — and we want engineers who think the same way.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Handle complex incident response and escalation. Take ownership of high-severity and technically complex incidents — leading investigation, driving containment decisions, and communicating findings clearly when it counts.

- Assess and improve telemetry and logging coverage. Automate evaluation o...

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