Senior Insider Risk Detection Engineer

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 388,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer within Global Security's Insider Risk team. You will contribute to strategic oversight, leadership, and technical direction of detection engineering to support discovery, detection, investigation, and response workflows.

You will collaborate with business units to create team-specific detections. The role focuses on automation development and detection engineering, building tools and proactive logic to identify insider risks at scale while enabling

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Go.
• Experience with security engineering or insider risk preferred.
• Ability to document and report technical findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and implement strategic detection projects with Insider Risk engineers.
• Develop tooling and automation to support investigations and remediation.
• Create detections to identify insider risk with high fidelity at scale.
• Collaborate across business units to align detections with global needs.
• Maintain compliant data flows and automated access for cross-regional use.
• Provide guidance to engineers and analysts to improve outcomes.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deploy solutions globally.

Skills

Python

SQL

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

OCI

GCP

AWS

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Senior Detection Engineer within Global Security's Insider Risk team. You will contribute to strategic oversight, leadership, and technical direction of detection engineering to support discovery, detection, investigation, and response workflows.

You will collaborate with business units to create team-specific detections. The role focuses on automation development and detection engineering, building tools and proactive logic to identify insider risks at scale while enabling