Senior Automation Engineer- Cloud Networking

Fluidstack; California City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and seeks a senior security operations professional to lead detection engineering initiatives. You will design and implement detection pipelines across cloud and endpoints, with emphasis on automation, version-controlled content, and scalable triage workflows.

You will collaborate across corp IT and infrastructure teams to harden telemetry and drive proactive security coverage in a fast-moving AI compute environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar.
• Experience building or scaling a detection engineering function with pipelines and coverage.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detection-as-code pipelines across cloud and endpoint telemetry.
• Develop CI/CD-integrated detection content with tests and version control.
• Collaborate with corp IT and infrastructure teams to ship telemetry fixes.

Skills

Security operations

Detection engineering

Incident response

Python scripting

Tools

Git

CI/CD

EDR

Cloud telemetry

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time.

The Security & Corp IT Team

• The Security & Corp IT team protects the people, systems, and infrastructure behind the largest AI compute buildout in history.
• Build detection and response coverage across cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), endpoint, and identity telemetry for a company whose attack surface spans corporate IT and gigawatt-scale data center infrastructure.
• Stand up detection-as-code pipelines so every detection is versioned, tested, and deployed like software rather than hand-edited in a console.
• Harden corp IT foundations (identity, device management, access) so security scales with headcount instead of lagging it.
• Build the detection engineering function from the ground up: telemetry pipelines, detection content, alert routing, and response runbooks, with coverage you can defend against a threat model, not just a tool checklist.
• Own detection-as-code end to end, writing detections across cloud and endpoint sources with tests, version control, and CI so a bad rule never ships silently.
• Drive automation of triage and enrichment in Python (or similar) so alert volume scales without proportional headcount.
• Work across corp IT and infrastructure teams to get the telemetry, logging, and access you need, and to fix the root causes your detections keep surfacing.
• 8+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, with time spent at a high-growth tech company, cloud-native infrastructure provider, or top-tier MDR/threat intel firm.
• ~You've built or scaled a detection engineering function, not just operated inside one: you can point to the program, the pipeline, and the coverage that exist because of you.
• ~Deep hands-on experience writing detections against cloud telemetry (AWS, GCP, or Azure control plane and audit logs) and endpoint telemetry (EDR event streams, OS-level signals).
• ~Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar, enough to build and maintain detection-as-code pipelines yourself rather than spec them for someone else.
• ~You work well across corp IT and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving environment, and you get telemetry and fixes shipped by making the case, not by escalating.
• ~Bonus: experience securing GPU clusters, HPC environments, or physical data center infrastructure, or contributions to open-source detection content (Sigma, community rule sets).

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.