Senior Observability & Detection Engineer

Averro; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Averro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Observability & Detection to join a growing technology company with multiple site operations. You will scale log analytics and security detection, collaborating with IT, software, cloud, and AI specialists.

Expect end-to-end data collection from Windows, Linux, endpoints, devices, and AWS. The role emphasizes AI coding agents, code-based detection rules, and a fast, cost-conscious pipeline.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software, platform, or security engineering.
• Deep experience in Python, Go or TypeScript.
• Scripting across Bash and PowerShell.
• Experience with high-volume data pipelines and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end collection and routing of security/operational events.
• Pull telemetry from Microsoft 365 and Entra ID and correlate it.
• Design retention tiers and ingestion filters for scale.
• Develop intrusion detection and anomaly detection rules.
• Tune alerts and enable triage with written incident explanations.
• Create verification tooling for configuration drift and policy checks.
• Express compliance checks as code for audits.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Bash

PowerShell

Security engineering

Data pipelines

AWS

Containers

Tools

OpenTelemetry collectors

Fluent Bit

Vector

Kinesis Data Firehose

OpenSearch

KQL

Job description

Averro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Observability & Detection to join a growing technology company with multiple site operations. You will scale log analytics and security detection, collaborating with IT, software, cloud, and AI specialists.

Expect end-to-end data collection from Windows, Linux, endpoints, devices, and AWS. The role emphasizes AI coding agents, code-based detection rules, and a fast, cost-conscious pipeline.