Senior Detection & Response Engineer: Automation & Investigations

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to build and evolve our detection program. You will create reliable detections, lead investigations and coordinated response, and develop automation to make security operations faster and more consistent.

The right candidate will own complex work, set engineering standards, and translate findings into durable program improvements while mentoring others on the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in detection engineering, incident response, or security engineering.
• Proficient in Python and SQL; able to write clean, testable code.
• Experience leading complex investigations and turning findings into durable detections and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and optimization of detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to incidents.
• Lead investigations and coordinated response for complex security events, including on-call responsibilities.
• Own key areas of the detection and response program and provide technical leadership to broader initiatives.
• Build automation and integrations that reduce toil and speed up investigation and response.
• Develop detection and response capabilities as code with testing, deployment, monitoring, and reliability standards.
• Translate attacker behavior into long‑lasting improvements using AI-driven approaches.
• Maintain runbooks and documentation, mentoring engineers in best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Detection engineering

Incident response

Security tooling

Reliability

Log analysis

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to build and evolve our detection program. You will create reliable detections, lead investigations and coordinated response, and develop automation to make security operations faster and more consistent.

The right candidate will own complex work, set engineering standards, and translate findings into durable program improvements while mentoring others on the team.