Senior Detection Engineer — AI-Driven Security (Remote)

VulnU; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

Fastly in New York seeks a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection Engineering team to design and build AI-driven detections, lead investigations, and create automations that speed up response across cloud, container, and edge environments.

You will work with EDR, SOAR, SIEM tools, perform threat hunts, and contribute to detections-as-code. Strong Python skills and cloud/Linux expertise are needed, with on-call rotation and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI tools into security operations and detections-as-code.
• Proven ability to lead complex security investigations with log analysis.
• Strong Python skills and ability to build automations for detection and response.

Responsibilities

• Develop detections and analytics to identify threats across cloud, container, and edge environments.
• Lead security investigations, analyzing telemetry to determine root cause.
• Build AI agents and automations to speed detection development and incident response.
• Research and maintain security tools including EDR, SOAR, and SIEM.
• Conduct threat hunts and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

AI integrations

Detections development

Incident response

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Log analysis

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Security

Tools

EDR

SOAR

SIEM

Job description

Fastly in New York seeks a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection Engineering team to design and build AI-driven detections, lead investigations, and create automations that speed up response across cloud, container, and edge environments.

You will work with EDR, SOAR, SIEM tools, perform threat hunts, and contribute to detections-as-code. Strong Python skills and cloud/Linux expertise are needed, with on-call rotation and collaboration across teams.