Senior Threat Detection Engineer - Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer to build and operate signals, pipelines, and tooling for threat detection across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry.

You will own the full detection lifecycle from hypothesis to retirement, collaborate with Security Operations and Engineering teams, and push forward an AI-assisted detection platform while aligning with our growth and security goals.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or a related technology discipline.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and continuously improve MITRE ATT&CK–aligned detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry, with clear false-positive thresholds.
• Own the full detection lifecycle—from hypothesis, data validation, and baselining through deployment, tuning, validation, and retirement.
• Advance our detection‑as‑code platform through version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, and improved pipeline reliability and observability.
• Identify emerging threat surfaces and build integrations that strengthen data ingestion, enrichment, and coverage across internal and third‑party systems.
• Evaluate AI‑powered security capabilities, including secure MCP integrations, threat hunting, anomaly detection, and response automation.
• Turn threat intelligence into actionable detection and retrospective scanning.
• Partner closely with Security Operations during investigations, incidents, table top exercises, detection maintenance, and code pairing.
• Champion, role model, and embed the company’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Security engineering

Detection engineering

Git

CI/CD

SIEM

AWS

Linux

EDR

Communication

Tools

Airflow

Databricks

Go

Terraform

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Threat Detection Engineer to build and operate signals, pipelines, and tooling for threat detection across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry.

You will own the full detection lifecycle from hypothesis to retirement, collaborate with Security Operations and Engineering teams, and push forward an AI-assisted detection platform while aligning with our growth and security goals.