AI-Driven Detection & Response Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build the systems that identify, investigate, and respond to threats across our platform. This engineering role emphasizes automation and requires collaborating with infrastructure, platform, and security teams to improve resilience.

You’ll design high‑fidelity detections for attacks and anomalous behavior, lead or participate in investigations across production and cloud environments, and develop tooling that speeds

Qualifications

• Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or software engineering with a security focus.
• Strong software engineering skills with production systems experience.
• Experience investigating security incidents in cloud-native or distributed environments.
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, and networking.
• Experience building detections using logs, telemetry, or large-scale event data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-fidelity detections for attacks, abuse, and anomalous behavior across our infrastructure and production systems.
• Lead or participate in investigations spanning production infrastructure, cloud environments, and internal systems.
• Build playbooks and automation that reduce investigation time and improve response consistency.
• Drive post-incident improvements that eliminate entire classes of future incidents.
• Build internal tooling that improves detection, investigation, and response workflows.
• Leverage LLMs to automate repetitive analysis, accelerate investigations, and surface actionable insights from security telemetry.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure new systems are observable and secure by default.

Skills

Security engineering

Detection engineering

Incident response

Software engineering

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

Kubernetes security

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build the systems that identify, investigate, and respond to threats across our platform. This engineering role emphasizes automation and requires collaborating with infrastructure, platform, and security teams to improve resilience.

You’ll design high‑fidelity detections for attacks and anomalous behavior, lead or participate in investigations across production and cloud environments, and develop tooling that speeds