Senior Detection Engineer
FluidStackGPU Cloud company
New York, United StatesSenior
Situational Awareness
Astro Capital (NY)
7GC & Co
Armyn Capital
Autopilot Management Company
Bare Metal Ventures
About the role
TL;DR
The Senior Detection Engineer will manage the detection engineering program and improve security operations.
- •The Senior Detection Engineer will own the detection engineering program end to end, build detection-as-code pipelines, and drive SIEM and EDR pipeline health.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the detection engineering program end to end: threat modeling, detection design, deployment, tuning, and retirement.
- •Build detection-as-code pipelines so every rule is version-controlled, tested, and peer-reviewed before it ships.
- •Run threat hunts against real adversary behavior in our cloud, SaaS, and data center environments.
- •Drive SIEM and EDR pipeline health: log source onboarding, normalization, and alert quality.
- •Lead triage and response for the alerts you build, and close out incidents with root-cause writeups.
- •Requirements 5+ years in detection engineering or threat hunting inside a mature security operations org.
- •Deep hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR tooling: Splunk, Elastic, CrowdStrike, or equivalent.
- •Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, SQL, or similar) and a detection-as-code workflow.
- •You've written and maintained detection logic mapped to MITRE ATT&CK against real adversary behavior.
- •You know the difference between a noisy rule and a broken one, and you tune or kill detections before responders learn to ignore them.
Required skills
PythonSQLElasticsearch
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
PythonSQLElasticsearch