AI-Driven Threat Detection & Response Engineer

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Detection Engineer within the Global Security Organization to advance threat detection and response capabilities across our platform and infrastructure. You will analyze threats, build scalable detection pipelines, and drive cross-functional security controls across teams.

Responsibilities include researching threats, developing signals, and applying AI/ML techniques to improve detection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or industry equivalent work experience in Cybersecurity with a focus on security analytics and incident response.
• Proficient in Python and related tools (numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc.) to analyse logs, identify anomalies, and propose detection strategies.

Responsibilities

• Research emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits relevant to our infrastructure and products.
• Develop new methods and technologies to detect threats, identify attack surfaces, and design data-driven approaches that use these signals to identify security threats.

Skills

Security fundamentals

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST CSF

Threat modeling

Log analysis

AI/ML for security

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent

Tools

WAF

HIDS

NTA

EDR

DLP

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Detection Engineer within the Global Security Organization to advance threat detection and response capabilities across our platform and infrastructure. You will analyze threats, build scalable detection pipelines, and drive cross-functional security controls across teams.

Responsibilities include researching threats, developing signals, and applying AI/ML techniques to improve detection.