Senior Detection Engineer

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer to advance its detection engineering strategy within the Enterprise Security team. This role is essential to safeguarding EA's cloud and production environments and will directly impact the company's ability to detect, respond to, and prevent cyber threats at scale.

As a senior individual contributor reporting to the Director of Threat Intelligence and Detections, you will play a central role in the technical leadership of the Detection Engineering team. You'll mentor junior engineers, help define engineering direction, and lead the development of scalable threat detection solutions, including those applying AI and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize advanced detections across cloud, container, and on-prem environments.
• Build integrations for diverse data sources into EA's detection infrastructure.
• Define detection lifecycle processes governance and performance metrics.
• Lead development of AI-driven detection proof-of-concepts.
• Guide peers in building scalable, maintainable detection infrastructure and tuning detection content.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in detection engineering, security engineering, or software development with a focus on cybersecurity.
• Experience developing detections and integrations within SIEM platforms.
• Skills in Python and JavaScript, with familiarity in NodeJS and Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks.
• Experience with cloud security platforms and integrating their outputs into detection pipelines.
• Background in AI/ML or data science applied to cybersecurity detections.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, container security, and host-based detection.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing support.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Opportunities for growth and development.