Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response
New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC
Full Time
7 hours ago
Senior LevelEngineering
$80K - $120K

USD per year

Job Description
  • You will:
  • Engineer, test, and deploy detection logic across cloud and enterprise environments, treating detections as software with version control, peer review, and measurable performance.
  • Build and maintain incident response automation, runbooks, and tooling that reduce containment timelines without sacrificing developer velocity.
  • Mature telemetry pipelines through improved schema design, normalization, enrichment, and quality checks that reduce false positives and increase signal fidelity.
  • Perform digital incident investigations to identify and contain potential security breaches.
  • Conduct digital forensics and malware analysis to understand attack vectors and adversary methodologies.
  • Integrate alerting with messaging and ticketing systems to enable fast, traceable response workflows.
  • Partner cross-functionally with IT, security, and engineering teams to harden identity and access patterns, close logging and forensics gaps, and implement maintainable guardrails that scale with the organization.
  • Utilize threat intelligence platforms to improve hunting, detection, and response workflows.
  • Clearly explain the significance and impact of incidents, providing actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ideally, you'd have:

  • 5+ years of experience in Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or Security Operations,

with a strong emphasis on building and shipping security tooling and automation.

  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python,

Go) and comfort writing production-grade code — not just scripts.

  • Hands-on experience designing or improving detection pipelines,

SIEM content, and alerting workflows in cloud-native environments.

  • Practical experience with SIEM,

EDR, and SOAR tools, with a preference for candidates who have built integrations or extended these platforms programmatically.

  • Strong understanding of modern cyber threats,

common attack techniques, and adversary TTPs.

  • Familiarity with digital forensics tools

and malware analysis techniques.

  • Experience with cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS,

GCP, Azure) and the security telemetry those environments generate.

  • Exposure to threat intelligence platforms

and integrating intel into detection and investigation workflows.

  • Strong communication skills,

with the ability to translate complex security findings into clear business impact.

  • Relevant security certifications (e.g., GCIH,

GCFA, GCIA, CISSP, GDSA) are a plus.

How to Apply
About Scale AI

Scale AI provides high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models and enable enterprises and governments to build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. They offer a data-centric, end-to-end solution to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle, combining cutting edge technology with operational excellence to help teams develop the highest-quality datasets.

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