Senior Detection Engineer – AI-Powered Security Ops

WebHosting; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Flexible vacation policy

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Fastly in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering to design and implement detections across cloud, container, and edge environments. You will build AI agents and automations to speed detection and response, while leading security investigations and threat hunts.

You’ll evaluate security tools (EDR, SOAR, SIEM), participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with teams to strengthen the security posture of Fastly’s edge cloud platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building detections and analytics to identify threats across cloud, container, and edge environments.
• Ability to lead security investigations analyzing complex log sources and telemetry.
• Experience designing AI agents and automations for detection development and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Develop detections and analytics to identify threats across cloud, container, and edge environments.
• Lead security investigations, analyzing complex log sources and telemetry to determine root cause.
• Build AI agents and automations that speed up detection development, triage, and incident response.
• Research, evaluate, implement, and maintain security tools such as EDR, SOAR, and SIEM.
• Conduct threat hunts to discover unknown activity across the environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Detection engineering

AI for security

Security analytics

Cloud security

Log analysis

Tools

EDR

SOAR

SIEM

Job description

Fastly in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering to design and implement detections across cloud, container, and edge environments. You will build AI agents and automations to speed detection and response, while leading security investigations and threat hunts.

You’ll evaluate security tools (EDR, SOAR, SIEM), participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with teams to strengthen the security posture of Fastly’s edge cloud platform.