Detection & Response Lead

Nebius Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity upside

Remote-first

Career growth

Job summary

Nebius is seeking a Detection Engineering & Response Lead to build and run the D&R capability for Nebius Cloud. You will own detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response, leading a small team of analysts and engineers to drive robust security operations across cloud and bare-metal environments.

The role requires hands-on experience with cloud-native setups, SIEM rule development, and SOAR automation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Linux workloads).
• Strong detection engineering skills: writing and tuning rules/detections in SIEM Platforms (Chronicle, Splunk, Elastic) and SQL.
• Experience building or operating SOAR workflows and automating response at scale (Golang and Temporal).
• Working knowledge of threat intelligence frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, Pyramid of Pain, Kill Chain).
• Solid IR fundamentals: memory forensics, log analysis, network traffic analysis, and post-incident reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead detection development and maintain low false-positive/false-negative rates.
• Collaborate with 20+ teams to reduce noise while preserving signals for threat detection.
• Architect and operate detection coverage across cloud and bare-metal environments.
• Build and extend D&R tools and pipelines; onboard logs and automate response runbooks.
• Integrate threat intelligence into detection logic and IR playbooks.
• Lead end-to-end incident response: scoping, containment, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews.

Skills

Security operations

Detection engineering

Incident response

Kubernetes

Linux workloads

SOAR workflows

Threat intelligence

Post-incident reporting

Stakeholder management

Golang

Tools

SIEM (Chronicle/Splunk/Elastic)

SQL

Golang

Temporal

Falco

Tetragon

SOAR

Job description

About Nebius

About Nebius: Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure. Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

Detection and Response

The team is responsible for detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response across Nebius Cloud. Its goal is to improve and maintain Nebius's security monitoring capabilities, as well as to build and maintain an end-to-end Security Incident Response program - people, processes, and tools.

The Role

We're hiring a Detection Engineering & Response Lead to build and run our D&R capability from the ground up. You'll own the detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response functions across Nebius Cloud - and lead a small, growing team of analysts and engineers. This is a lead engineering role responsible for detection development, handling the most complex security incidents, forensics, and shaping the D&R strategy.

What you’ll do

• Lead detection development: maintain low false-positive and false-negative rates.
• Work closely with alerts consumers (20+ teams) to keep noise low and signal high, ensuring they can act quickly without missing genuine threats.
• Architect and operate detection coverage across our cloud and bare-metal environments
• Build and extend our internal D&R tools and pipelines - onboard new logs, build and automate response runbooks
• Integrate threat intelligence into detection logic and IR playbooks, tracking adversary TTPs relevant to Cloud infrastructure
• Lead incident response end-to-end: scoping, containment, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews and controlling critical action items are closed to prevent future possible incidents
• Partner with Compliance and Engineering teams to detect real threats while meeting the needs of both engineers and regulators
• Define and report on D&R metrics: MTTD, MTTR, detection coverage, false positive rates, etc
• Build and maintain Security Incident Response program: people, processes, tools
• Build tools, runbooks, and on-call processes that scale as the company grows

What we look for

• 6+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response — with at least 1–2 years leading or mentoring a team.
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Linux workloads, container-based infrastructure).
• Strong detection engineering skills: writing and tuning rules/detections in SIEM Platforms (e.g., Chronicle, Splunk, Elastic) and SQL.
• Experience building or operating SOAR workflows and automating response at scale (ideally with Golang and Temporal).
• Working knowledge of threat intelligence frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, Pyramid of Pain, Kill Chain) and how to operationalize them in detections.
• Solid IR fundamentals: memory forensics, log analysis, network traffic analysis, and post-incident reporting.
• Stakeholder management: able to coordinate across engineers, compliance, legal, executives during active incident phase.
• Serve as the primary owner and driver for complex changes, as a result of incidents post-mortem.
• Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML and GPU clusters related threats.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based detection or runtime security tooling (Falco, Tetragon).
• Background in threat hunting.

Why this role at Nebius

Build D&R at a company scaling from startup to global infrastructure provider in real time. Opportunity to evolve our internal D&R platform into a new cloud security product, delivering novel security observability for a range of neocloud customers - from big tech to AI startups. Work alongside world-class engineers on infrastructure that powers frontier AI. Competitive compensation with equity upside in a Nasdaq-listed, high-growth company. Flexible, remote-first culture.

Hiring Process

• Recruiter's chat (30mins)
• Live-coding interview (60mins) to asses basic coding skills
• Security interview (60mins) to asses domain expertise
• Incident Response interview (90mins) to assess practical experience (Optional)
• Technical deep dive (90mins) to present a complex and impact project.
• Final interview to close the hiring process (45mins)

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

What's it like to work at Nebius

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant…