Detection & Response Security Engineer

Coinscapture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer in Detection & Response to protect its most sensitive assets by building and operating detection and response tooling across endpoints, cloud, and datacenter environments. You will partner with security and infrastructure teams to define telemetry and threat models from day one, delivering scalable and reliable security capabilities.

You will drive automation to reduce toil, improve investigations, and accelerate containment while operating in a

Qualifications

• Hands-on threat detection and incident response
• Threat modeling mindset
• Experience with Kubernetes/containerized environments
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI)
• Automation and scripting to reduce toil
• Clear communication and cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across infrastructure, products, and research environments
• Engineer detection pipelines, rule lifecycles, and measurement loops
• Automate response and investigations with workflows to improve containment and time-to-understand
• Collaborate with security teams and infrastructure owners to ensure telemetry and playbooks from day one
• Define D&R requirements for endpoints, identity, SaaS, cloud, and Kubernetes
• Evaluate and respond to emergent security concerns in AI lab environments

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer in Detection & Response to protect its most sensitive assets by building and operating detection and response tooling across endpoints, cloud, and datacenter environments. You will partner with security and infrastructure teams to define telemetry and threat models from day one, delivering scalable and reliable security capabilities.

You will drive automation to reduce toil, improve investigations, and accelerate containment while operating in a