Senior Detection Engineer: SIEM/XDR & Cloud Security

LinkedIn; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a senior Detection Engineer to design, build, and operate high-signal detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will apply detections-as-code practices, telemetry modeling, and data-driven efficacy measurements to continuously improve coverage and reduce noise.

This hands-on role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Engineering teams, and on-call responsibilities to

Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in CyberSecurity, Information Security, Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 3+ years in security, detection engineering or incident response.
• Experience building detection content and analytics for SIEM/XDR/EDR and cloud telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-signal detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Leverage detections-as-code, telemetry modeling, and data-driven efficacy measurements.
• Participate in on-call for critical detection pipelines and high-severity investigations.

Skills

Detection Engineering

Detection as code

KQL

Python

MITRE ATT&CK

Education

BA/BS in CyberSecurity/InfoSec/CS

Tools

SIGMA

KQL/SQL

Job description

LinkedIn is seeking a senior Detection Engineer to design, build, and operate high-signal detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will apply detections-as-code practices, telemetry modeling, and data-driven efficacy measurements to continuously improve coverage and reduce noise.

This hands-on role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Engineering teams, and on-call responsibilities to