Security Engineer - Detection and Response
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What You'll Do
Identify detection opportunities, define clear telemetry requirements, and partner with the detection infrastructure squad and data owners to make the signals needed for detection and investigation available.
Develop, test, tune, and maintain detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, email, and other security-relevant environments.
Investigate and prioritize alerts, determine their security impact, and participate in incident containment and remediation.
Build repeatable investigation workflows and playbooks for alert triage, evidence collection, decision-making, escalation, containment, and response.
Improve proactive threat-identification and threat-hunting capabilities using internal telemetry and external threat intelligence.
Create cutting-edge AI workflows for Detection and Response that enrich alerts, gather and analyze evidence, guide investigations, and automate repetitive response work while preserving appropriate human judgment and oversight.
Measure detection effectiveness, identify coverage gaps, and tune detections to balance security value, fidelity, and analyst workload.
Use SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and related security platforms to research threats, develop detections, investigate alerts, and validate security outcomes.
Share knowledge, document decisions, and communicate security findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Who You Are
You are curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, detection engineering, or closely related work.
You understand how analysts triage and investigate alerts and how detection quality affects their decisions and workload.
You know how to create and tune detections based on attacker behavior, available telemetry, and an expected investigation path.
You are experienced with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or comparable monitoring and response technologies.
You can write code or use an automation platform to analyze security telemetry, enrich alerts, build investigation workflows, and remove repetitive work. Experience with Python or a similar language is valuable.
You understand modern detection-as-code practices, including GitHub, peer review, CI/CD, testing, and safely managing production detection content.
You have experience working with at least one major cloud platform, such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
You understand common threats affecting SaaS-oriented corporate and production environments.
You care about clear documentation, inclusive collaboration, and explaining security concepts to people with different backgrounds and levels of expertise.
You are excited to create and critically evaluate cutting-edge AI workflows for detection development, alert triage, security investigations, and response, while applying sound security judgment and appropriate human oversight.
Where You'll Be
This role is based in New York
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
Our global benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
- Global parental leave, six months off - for all new parents.
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
About Spotify
Public Luxembourg-domiciled audio streaming service providing music, podcasts, audiobooks, and advertising-supported listening globally.
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