Top Secret Security Engineer – Public Sector

Scale AI, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 164,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Equity compensation

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. seeks a highly technical Security Engineer to join our Public Sector Infrastructure & Security team as a security generalist. You will design and ship high-precision detections across cloud services and enterprise SaaS, writing production-quality code and triaging alerts.

You will structure investigations, communicate impact, and translate findings into durable engineering improvements. You will engineer, test, and deploy detection logic, build incident response automation, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or Security Operations.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go) and production-grade code.
• Hands-on experience designing or improving detection pipelines and alerting workflows in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, test, and deploy detection logic across cloud and enterprise environments.
• Build and maintain incident response automation, runbooks, and tooling.
• Mature telemetry pipelines with better schema design, enrichment, and quality checks.

Skills

Detection engineering

Incident response

Security tooling

NodeJS/TypeScript/Python

Kubernetes

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Cloud security

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. seeks a highly technical Security Engineer to join our Public Sector Infrastructure & Security team as a security generalist. You will design and ship high-precision detections across cloud services and enterprise SaaS, writing production-quality code and triaging alerts.

You will structure investigations, communicate impact, and translate findings into durable engineering improvements. You will engineer, test, and deploy detection logic, build incident response automation, and