Security Engineer - Detection and Response

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.