Staff Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. As a Staff Detection & Response Engineer & Team Lead at CoreWeave, you will drive the strategic vision, technical architecture, and execution of our threat detection and response capabilities across cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

You will operate as both a high-impact individual contributor and a technical leader, guiding a team of engineers to build scalable, automated, and resilient detection systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and empower a team of detection engineers, fostering technical excellence, continuous growth, and an inclusive engineering culture.
• Architect and steer long-term detection strategies at massive scale, establishing technical standards and operational best practices across the organization.
• Drive cross-functional technical strategy, aligning detection engineering initiatives with broader security, infrastructure, and enterprise AI goals.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and build resilient, automated Detection-as-Code pipelines, maintaining high-fidelity detection logic, CI/CD testing frameworks, and continuous coverage validation.
• Partner with Security and Data Science to deliver scalable log ingestion pipelines and security data lake infrastructure to aggregate, parse, and analyze multi-cloud and Kubernetes telemetry at petabyte scale.
• Innovate and integrate AI/LLM-driven analytics and automated triage workflows to enhance threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and incident response speed.
• Partner with infrastructure and product teams to identify root-cause vulnerabilities, automate incident response playbooks, and systematically eliminate recurring security risks.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership across teams, setting a high bar for engineering standards, driving post-incident reviews, and representing detection strategy to leadership.

The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption