Top Secret Security Engineer — Public Sector Detection

Scale AI; Washington, New York, St. Louis (District of Columbia, NY, MO); On-site; USD 196,800 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision

Equity compensation

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking 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-grade code and triaging alerts to strengthen security at scale.

You will structure investigations, analyze root causes, and communicate findings and remediation steps, turning them into durable engineering improvements such as better detections,

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• 5+ years of experience in Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or Security Operations.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, test, and deploy detection logic across cloud and enterprise environments, treating detections as software with version control, peer review, and measurable performance.
• Build and maintain incident response automation, runbooks, and tooling that reduce containment timelines without sacrificing developer velocity.
• Mature telemetry pipelines through improved schema design, normalization, enrichment, and quality checks that reduce false positives and increase signal fidelity.
• Perform digital incident investigations to identify and contain potential security breaches.
• Conduct digital forensics and malware analysis to understand attack vectors and adversary methodologies.
• Integrate alerting with messaging and ticketing systems to enable fast, traceable response workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with IT, security, and engineering teams to harden identity and access patterns, close logging and forensics gaps, and implement maintainable guardrails that scale with the organization.
• Utilize threat intelligence platforms to improve hunting, detection, and response workflows.
• Clearly explain the significance and impact of incidents, providing actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

NodeJS

TypeScript

Python

Kubernetes

Security tooling

Incident Response

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Cloud platforms

Job description

Scale AI is seeking 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-grade code and triaging alerts to strengthen security at scale.

You will structure investigations, analyze root causes, and communicate findings and remediation steps, turning them into durable engineering improvements such as better detections,