Security Detections Engineer: Fight Threats at Scale

Webhosting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan eligibility

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Detections Engineer in Austin, TX to identify, track, and mitigate sophisticated threats in real-time. You will work with evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to protect millions of users and organizations globally.

The role emphasizes collaboration, data-driven detection development, and clear communication of threat intelligence to technical and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in data, metadata, or network traffic analysis to identify threats.

Responsibilities

• Identify, track, and defeat sophisticated threats and abuse across the platform.

Skills

Data analysis

Metadata analysis

Network Traffic analysis

Attacker TTPs analysis

Security trends analysis

IOCs analysis

SQL

Python

Threat intelligence communication

Written communications

Mentoring

Education

BS in Computer Science / Information Technology / Information Security / Computer Security / Information Systems

Tools

YARA

Snort

Suricata

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Detections Engineer in Austin, TX to identify, track, and mitigate sophisticated threats in real-time. You will work with evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to protect millions of users and organizations globally.

The role emphasizes collaboration, data-driven detection development, and clear communication of threat intelligence to technical and executive stakeholders.