Detection & Response Platform Engineer - Telemetry/Automation

OpenTalent; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Detection and Response Platform Engineer to own the systems powering our security telemetry and response workflows. You will design pipelines, maintain tooling for detections, and drive reliability with strong engineering practices.

You will automate investigations, enforce standards, and explore AI-enabled approaches to reduce toil while maintaining operational health and rapid recovery. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform/SRE, software engineering, or security engineering with a strong infrastructure focus.
• Strong proficiency in Python for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the core infrastructure that powers detection and response workflows at scale.
• Design and maintain security telemetry pipelines, including collection, normalization, enrichment, and retention of logs and events.
• Own and evolve the execution environment and supporting tooling for detections and response automation, including dependency and configuration management, release processes, and runtime health monitoring.
• Automate investigation and response workflows by extending integrations across the tools we rely on.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for our tooling: clear interfaces, automated tests, code review, and documentation that makes the system easy to extend.
• Own operational health for the platform, including metrics, alerting, and on-call responsibilities focused on system reliability and availability.
• Explore and apply emerging approaches, potentially leveraging AI, to reduce toil and strengthen our security posture.
• Maintain operational playbooks and procedures that keep the platform healthy and make failures fast to diagnose and recover from.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Security engineering

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Detection and Response Platform Engineer to own the systems powering our security telemetry and response workflows. You will design pipelines, maintain tooling for detections, and drive reliability with strong engineering practices.

You will automate investigations, enforce standards, and explore AI-enabled approaches to reduce toil while maintaining operational health and rapid recovery. Hybrid work model offered.