Senior Security Engineer, AI‑First Detection & Response

United States Digital Space LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 142,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

the company in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response (D&R) Team. This hands-on role builds secure, scalable detection and response systems to enhance security observability and drive end-to-end incident response.

You will develop AI-first security systems, onboard and optimize logging data, and contribute to threat detection. The candidate should have 5+ years in software/security/data engineering and strong CI/CD, Python/Go skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software, security, and/or data engineering.
• Automation-first and AI-first approach for all work performed.
• Experience with centralized logging, data lakes, and SIEM solutions.
• Familiarity with large-scale data pipelines and data engineering techniques.
• Proficient in programming languages to automate / build (e.g., Python, Go or similar).
• Proven experience with git/GitHub and CI/CD automations.
• Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors.
• Experience being part of detection and response or incident response on-call.
• Strong passion for continuous learning and staying updated on evolving technology.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic

Responsibilities

• Build systems that facilitate security observability for detection and response
• Develop AI-first security systems to automate detection and response operations
• Onboard, normalize and optimize security logging data for large-scale data analysis, detection engineering, deployment of ML models, and efficient querying during incidents.
• Develop high-fidelity rule-based and/or ML-based detections as code
• Respond to security alerts, cyber threats, and security incidents
• Drive end-to-end incident response investigations
• Automate and codify detection and response workflows and processes
• Conduct ad-hoc threat hunts and be an active member of D&R on-call rotations

Skills

Security engineering

Data engineering

Python

Go

CI/CD automation

Logging/SIEM

Threat hunting

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

the company in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response (D&R) Team. This hands-on role builds secure, scalable detection and response systems to enhance security observability and drive end-to-end incident response.

You will develop AI-first security systems, onboard and optimize logging data, and contribute to threat detection. The candidate should have 5+ years in software/security/data engineering and strong CI/CD, Python/Go skills.