Detection & Response Engineer Austin, TX

Future Secure AI Pty; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

State-of-the-art technology

Flexible work environment

Competitive salary

High-performance culture

Job summary

Future Secure AI Pty in Austin, Texas, is looking for a Detection & Response Engineer to help establish their security program. The role allows you to own an entire security domain and requires automating security processes and ensuring efficient incident handling.

Ideal candidates will have strong scripting skills in Python or Go and 5+ years of relevant experience. You'll be part of a high-performance culture and work with cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, security operations, or security engineering.
• Strong scripting and development skills in Python and/or Go.
• Proven experience building detections against large-scale log data and working with a logging platform.
• Deep knowledge of operating-system internals, cloud security concepts, and common attacker techniques.
• A strong bias toward automating recurring problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and tune high-fidelity detections across multiple systems.
• Build and improve log onboarding, enrichment, and detection pipelines.
• Build automation to scale triage, investigation, and response.
• Translate raw intel into actionable detection logic.
• Investigate alerts and drive incidents to resolution.

Skills

Detection engineering

Security operations

Security engineering

Python

Go

Automation

Job description

At Future Secure AI, we're building something genuinely new — and we're looking for people bold enough to build it with us. We work at the frontier of AI, tackling big, real-world problems for global enterprises across multiple industries, armed with state‑of‑the‑art technology and a culture that prizes courage, rigor, and relentless curiosity. Our BRAVER values aren't just words on a wall — they describe the kind of people we are and the standard we hold ourselves to every day. Our leadership team is entrepreneurial, experienced, and accessible, with an open‑door policy that means you'll never be just a number here. We invest seriously in your growth because we know our success depends on yours. If you're ready to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, push into uncharted territory, and do work that genuinely matters, Future Secure AI is the place for you.

About the Role

We are hiring a Detection & Response Engineer to help build FSAI's security program from the ground up. As one of our founding hires, you will own an entire domain, not just a slice of someone else's project. You'll serve as an incident handler on our on‑call rotation, balanced across Australia and North American time zones so that coverage follows the sun rather than asking you to work off‑hours. We treat security as a systems problem: our default is to solve problems smartly through automation and scale, engineering our way out of manual toil rather than accepting a baseline of endless ticket processing. We seek out industry‑leading vendors and approaches rather than defaulting to what is slow and safe, and we design controls that protect the business without degrading the engineering or end‑user experience. This is all new, so expect it to be bumpy while we build it out.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and tune high‑fidelity detections across endpoints, cloud, identity, and infrastructure, aligned to attacker TTPs
• Build and improve log onboarding, enrichment, and the pipelines that feed detection and investigation on our logging platform (e.g., Scanner)
• Build automation (e.g., Tines) that scales triage, investigation, and response, wired directly into our on‑call and paging systems (e.g., incident.io, PagerDuty)
• Translate raw intel and security research into actionable, automated detection logic
• Investigate alerts, drive incidents to resolution, and coordinate with the endpoint stack (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Huntress), feeding lessons learned back into detections and runbooks

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, security operations, or security engineering
• Strong scripting and development skills in Python and/or Go
• Proven experience building detections against large‑scale log data and working with a logging or SIEM‑style platform
• Deep knowledge of operating‑system internals, cloud (AWS) security concepts, and common attacker techniques
• A strong bias toward automating recurring problems rather than absorbing them

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in threat hunting, digital forensics, malware analysis, or threat intelligence
• Experience with detection‑as‑code and building CI/CD pipelines for detections
• Familiarity with automation/SOAR platforms and case management systems
• Experience applying ML/LLM techniques to detection (e.g., enrichment, correlation, risk‑based alerting)

Why Join Us?

• A high‑performance culture
• State‑of‑the‑art technology
• Experience world‑class leadership
• Scale of impact and purpose
• A competitive salary and a huge growth trajectory
• Work with the best in the industry
• Flexible work environment
• Diversity and creativity

As set forth in Future Secure AI’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.