# Staff Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

**Company**: CoreWeave
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $207,000 to $275,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreweave/jobs/4727345006?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/staff-security-engineer-detection-engineering-434bc3ad-c2b/

## Description

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

For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/).

## Skills

### Required
- Detection-as-Code
- Kubernetes runtime security
- cloud-native container security
- Linux internals
- Python
- Go
- SQL
- KQL

### Nice to have
- AI
- machine learning
- LLMs
- threat intelligence synthesis
- automated incident triage

---

Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreweave/jobs/4727345006?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)