Senior Network Defense Engineer — AI-Driven DDoS Mitigation

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Response Engineer (Network Security focused) to join Cloudforce One's CMDC team. You will lead advanced incident response, architect mitigations for large-scale DDoS, and work across BGP, IPflow, and edge protections to keep global customers resilient.

The role emphasizes mentorship, strategic communication, and collaboration with product, engineering, and AI teams to turn threat telemetry into automated defenses and improved protections.

Qualifications

• Experience in network security incident response and defense engineering.
• Deep knowledge of DDoS mitigation and edge protections.
• Strong familiarity with BGP routing and traffic engineering.
• Experience leveraging threat intelligence for proactive defense.
• Proven ability to lead incident response and escalations.

Responsibilities

• Technical Escalation & Response: provide hands-on intervention during complex incidents.
• Incident Architecture: lead technical response and validate mitigation effectiveness.
• Detection Engineering: design and tune network attack detection logic.

Skills

Network security

DDoS mitigation

BGP routing

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Response Engineer (Network Security focused) to join Cloudforce One's CMDC team. You will lead advanced incident response, architect mitigations for large-scale DDoS, and work across BGP, IPflow, and edge protections to keep global customers resilient.

The role emphasizes mentorship, strategic communication, and collaboration with product, engineering, and AI teams to turn threat telemetry into automated defenses and improved protections.