Detection & Response Security Engineer

OpenAI; United States; On-site; USD 293,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer for Detection & Response to protect our assets across endpoints, identity, cloud, and data centers. You will collaborate with security teams to define telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks, building tooling that reduces toil while increasing visibility and rapid containment.

You will work in Kubernetes and cloud environments, designing telemetry, automation, and agent-based workflows to accelerate investigations and scale security operations

Qualifications

• Have hands-on threat detection and/or incident response experience, including building detections, running investigations, and improving operational playbooks.
• Understand modern adversary tradecraft and translate into practical detection strategies and response actions.
• Bring a threat-modeling mindset for infrastructure features and telemetry needs.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI's infrastructure, products, and research environments.
• Engineer detection pipelines and tooling, including rule lifecycle management and tuning processes.
• Automate response and investigations by building workflows that reduce toil and improve time-to-understand.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Automation

Agent tooling

Tools

Telemetry

Detection pipelines

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer for Detection & Response to protect our assets across endpoints, identity, cloud, and data centers. You will collaborate with security teams to define telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks, building tooling that reduces toil while increasing visibility and rapid containment.

You will work in Kubernetes and cloud environments, designing telemetry, automation, and agent-based workflows to accelerate investigations and scale security operations