# Security Engineer - Detection and Response

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: $132,948–$189,927 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/cb29d857-395b-401d-9749-367e666ff870?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fe0e109d-03c

## Description

### Job Overview

The Security Engineer - Detection and Response role involves protecting Spotify's platform, employees, creators, and users. You will work within the detection engineering squad to identify, investigate, and respond to threats across Spotify's environment.

### Responsibilities

- Identify detection opportunities and partner with the detection infrastructure squad to make necessary signals available.

- Develop, test, tune, and maintain detections across various security-relevant environments.

- Investigate and prioritize alerts, determine their security impact, and participate in incident containment and remediation.

- Build repeatable investigation workflows and playbooks for alert triage and response.

- Improve proactive threat-identification and threat-hunting capabilities.

- Create cutting-edge AI workflows for Detection and Response.

- Measure detection effectiveness and tune detections to balance security value and analyst workload.

- Use SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and related security platforms to research threats and develop detections.

- Share knowledge and communicate security findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

### Requirements

- 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, or threat detection.

- Understanding of how analysts triage and investigate alerts.

- Experience with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR.

- Ability to write code or use an automation platform for security telemetry analysis.

- Experience with modern detection-as-code practices.

- Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform.

- Understanding of common threats affecting SaaS-oriented corporate environments.

- Clear documentation and inclusive collaboration skills.

### Location and Benefits

- Based in New York, with flexibility to work remotely.

- The United States base range for this position is $132,948–$189,927 USD, plus equity.

- Benefits include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.

## Skills

### Required
- SIEM
- EDR
- SOAR
- Python
- Cloud platforms
- Detection-as-code practices

### Nice to have
- Experience with AI workflows for Detection and Response

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