Senior AI Security Engineer – Cloud Threat Detection & Response

Veeam; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 289,000 - 537,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Mental health support

Comprehensive benefits

Learning & development

Job summary

Veeam is seeking a senior security engineering professional to design and operate detection systems across multi‑cloud environments, guiding incident response at scale. You will drive vulnerability management, partner with engineering for telemetry integration, and ensure evidence meets regulatory requirements.

This hands‑on role emphasizes security automation and threat hunting in a fast‑paced setting. The ideal candidate combines cloud security expertise with practical experience building

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security operations, threat detection, incident response, or vulnerability management with recent hands-on incident response.
• Proven ability to build detection rules and analytics for real threats with low false positives.
• Experience designing incident response workflows with triage, escalation, and containment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy detection rules and analytics across cloud infrastructure using SIEMs and log data.
• Develop incident response runbooks for triage, containment, and remediation with audit trails.
• Create correlation logic to surface real threats with low false positives for rapid investigation.
• Own vulnerability management program including scanner integration, severity and SLA enforcement.
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate security telemetry and detection hooks into apps and infra.
• Work with Compliance to generate auditor-facing evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HITRUST.
• Lead threat hunting initiatives to identify compromises and persistence mechanisms.
• Establish and evolve incident response playbooks and remediation processes across teams.

Skills

Security operations

Threat detection

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security (Azure/AWS)

SIEM

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD security

Threat hunting

Regulatory evidence

Automation

Tools

Sentinel

Splunk

Azure Defender

GuardDuty

Cloud security tools (Qualys/Tenable/Wiz)

EDR

Job description

Veeam is seeking a senior security engineering professional to design and operate detection systems across multi‑cloud environments, guiding incident response at scale. You will drive vulnerability management, partner with engineering for telemetry integration, and ensure evidence meets regulatory requirements.

This hands‑on role emphasizes security automation and threat hunting in a fast‑paced setting. The ideal candidate combines cloud security expertise with practical experience building