Public Sector Security Engineer: Detections & IR

Scale AI; Washington; On-site; USD 218,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

PTO

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a highly technical Security Engineer to join our Public Sector Infrastructure & Security team as a security generalist. You will design and ship high-precision detections across cloud services and enterprise SaaS, writing production-grade code and building systems that detect, contain, and prevent incidents.

You will work with IT, security, and engineering to harden identity, mature telemetry, and automate incident response.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• Proficiency in NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, and/or Kubernetes.
• 5+ years in Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or Security Operations.
• Production-grade code experience.
• Design or improve detection pipelines, SIEM content, and alerting workflows in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with digital forensics tools and malware analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, test, and deploy detection logic across cloud and enterprise environments, treating detections as software with version control, peer review, and measurable performance.
• Build and maintain incident response automation, runbooks, and tooling that reduce containment timelines without sacrificing developer velocity.
• Mature telemetry pipelines through improved schema design, normalization, enrichment, and quality checks that reduce false positives and increase signal fidelity.
• Perform digital incident investigations to identify and contain potential security breaches.
• Conduct digital forensics and malware analysis to understand attack vectors and adversary methodologies.
• Integrate alerting with messaging and ticketing systems to enable fast, traceable response workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with IT, security, and engineering teams to harden identity and access patterns, close logging and forensics gaps, and implement maintainable guardrails that scale with the organization.
• Utilize threat intelligence platforms to improve hunting, detection, and response workflows.
• Clearly explain the significance and impact of incidents, providing actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

NodeJS

TypeScript

Python

Kubernetes

Detection Engineering

Incident Response

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a highly technical Security Engineer to join our Public Sector Infrastructure & Security team as a security generalist. You will design and ship high-precision detections across cloud services and enterprise SaaS, writing production-grade code and building systems that detect, contain, and prevent incidents.

You will work with IT, security, and engineering to harden identity, mature telemetry, and automate incident response.