Staff Detection Platform Engineer: Cloud-Scale Security

Colossus Technologies Group; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Colossus Technologies Group is seeking a Staff Security Engineer focused on detection engineering to join a fintech company. The role emphasizes building detection platforms and automated response capabilities rather than reliance on SIEM rules or SOC duties.

Ideal candidates have deep software engineering experience (Python/Go/Rust) and strong background in AWS, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems or Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background in Python, Go or Rust.
• Experience building detection platforms or security data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Ability to automate investigations and detections.
• Experience building scalable security infrastructure for financial platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build detection systems that combine cloud, app, identity, endpoint and runtime telemetry.
• Develop custom detection engines and rules engines.
• Engineer runtime detection for cloud and container environments including Kubernetes.
• Build pipelines that collect, enrich and correlate telemetry into usable detection signals.
• Automate investigation and response to enable programmatic handling of high-confidence activity.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Security data pipelines

Job description

Colossus Technologies Group is seeking a Staff Security Engineer focused on detection engineering to join a fintech company. The role emphasizes building detection platforms and automated response capabilities rather than reliance on SIEM rules or SOC duties.

Ideal candidates have deep software engineering experience (Python/Go/Rust) and strong background in AWS, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems or Kubernetes.