Job Overview
Location
Kansas City, MO SOC
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Cybersecurity
Date Posted
June 19, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a SOC Engineer at Tenex.AI, you will play a critical role in enhancing the company’s AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform by leading incident response, improving telemetry coverage, ensuring detection quality, and contributing to response automation—directly impacting customer security outcomes and internal operational excellence.
- • Day to day, you will handle high-severity incident investigations, assess logging and telemetry gaps across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud environments, evaluate SIEM detection fidelity and parser quality, collaborate with SOAR teams on automation design, support cross-functional technical needs, and drive improvements in SOC tooling and workflows to increase consistency and quality.
- • Tenex.AI is a fast-growing, well-funded cybersecurity startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, operating as an AI-native, automation-first MDR provider. The company emphasizes in-person collaboration, a strong engineering-driven culture, and mission-focused innovation in threat detection and response.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in enterprise security operations, gain hands-on experience with advanced SIEM and SOAR platforms, contribute to AI-augmented security workflows, and grow as a technical leader shaping the future of MDR through automation, detection engineering, and customer-facing problem solving.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering with demonstrated depth across multiple domains
- • Strong fluency in logging and telemetry to evaluate coverage posture and identify deficiencies
- • Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (Google Chronicle, Microsoft Sentinel, and/or Splunk)
- • Solid understanding of response automation including enrichment pipelines, SOAR playbooks, and containment logic
- • Working knowledge of cloud security architecture in at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- • Scripting proficiency in Python or PowerShell for automation and integration work
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to join as an early employee in a well-funded startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz with meaningful impact on culture and product
- • In-person work culture emphasizing collaboration and community, supported by a published culture deck
- • Exposure to cutting-edge AI-native MDR platform development with automation-first approach
- • Engagement with complex, high-severity incidents and cross-functional technical challenges
- • Professional growth in detection engineering, telemetry analysis, and response automation
- • Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GCIH, SIEM platform) encouraged and valued as a plus
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About Tenex.AI, Inc
Tenex.AI is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native managed detection and response (MDR) platform. It combines automated threat detection, risk management, and incident response capabilities with human oversight to identify, contain, and remediate security incidents in real time. Tenex integrates with cloud and security stacks from providers like Google, Microsoft, and others to reduce response times and streamline operations.
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