Senior Detection and Response Engineer

The role

You will build and evolve capabilities for the detection and response program. You will create detections, lead investigations, and develop automation systems to improve security operations.

What you will do

• Lead the design and optimization of detections, playbooks, and workflows.
• Lead investigations and coordinated response for complex security events, including on-call responsibilities.
• Own key areas of the detection and response program and provide technical leadership.
• Build automation and integrations to reduce toil.
• Build and maintain detection and response capabilities as code.
• Translate incident findings and attacker behavior into durable improvements.
• Maintain clear runbooks and technical documentation.
• Mentor other engineers in effective detection and response practices.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex technical initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Deep practical knowledge of detection and response across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments.
• Experience leading complex investigations and translating attacker behavior into durable detection and response improvements.
• Experience building and operating production security tooling and automation.
• Strong fundamentals in reliability and data quality.
• Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, log analysis, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Excellent written communication skills.

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.