Staff Detection Engineer & Team Lead, Security AI Infra

ContentBuffer; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Voluntary life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits

Family-Forming support

Paid Parental Leave

Childcare support with Kinside

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch in office

Job summary

CoreWeave, a leading cloud provider for AI, seeks a Staff Detection & Response Engineer & Team Lead in Bellevue to drive threat detection architecture and mentor a team of engineers. You will lead detection strategy, build automated detection pipelines, and collaborate across security, infra, and enterprise AI goals.

You will architect scalable solutions, integrate AI/LLM analytics, and guide incident response playbooks while maintaining high engineering standards and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Staff-level or Technical Lead capacity, guiding engineering teams and multi-year detection strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of detection engineers, fostering technical excellence and growth.
• Architect long-term detection strategies at massive scale, establishing standards and best practices.
• Drive cross-functional technical strategy, aligning detection initiatives with security, infrastructure, and enterprise AI goals.
• Design and build resilient, automated Detection-as-Code pipelines with CI/CD testing and coverage validation.
• Partner with infrastructure and product teams to identify root-cause vulnerabilities and automate incident response playbooks.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Detection-as-Code

CI/CD security pipelines

Security data lakes

Linux internals

Kubernetes security (eBPF, Falco)

Python Go SQL (KQL)

Mentoring engineers

Tools

eBPF

Falco

Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave, a leading cloud provider for AI, seeks a Staff Detection & Response Engineer & Team Lead in Bellevue to drive threat detection architecture and mentor a team of engineers. You will lead detection strategy, build automated detection pipelines, and collaborate across security, infra, and enterprise AI goals.

You will architect scalable solutions, integrate AI/LLM analytics, and guide incident response playbooks while maintaining high engineering standards and operational excellence.