Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

NVIDIA
California, Texas, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 168,000 - 310,500 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Sound judgment"]

Build and tune high-confidence security detections across SIEM and security analytics platforms, translating incident, hunt, threat intel, red-team, and vulnerability context into production-ready detection logic. Investigate telemetry before alerting, drive the full detection lifecycle (design through deployment, tuning, monitoring, and retirement), and strengthen detection-as-code workflows with testing and coverage reporting. Partner with responders to reduce noise and improve investigation outcomes.

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Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

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Job Summary

Build and tune high-confidence security detections across SIEM and security analytics platforms, translating incident, hunt, threat intel, red-team, and vulnerability context into production-ready detection logic. Investigate telemetry before alerting, drive the full detection lifecycle (design through deployment, tuning, monitoring, and retirement), and strengthen detection-as-code workflows with testing and coverage reporting. Partner with responders to reduce noise and improve investigation outcomes.
Location: California, Texas, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and tune high-confidence detections across platforms including SIEM/security analytics, cloud-native logs, identity telemetry, endpoint data, and developer systems.
  • •Translate incidents, hunts, threat intelligence, red-team findings, and vulnerability context into detection logic for testing and operations.
  • •Investigate real telemetry before alerting, analyzing field behavior, timing, joins, baselines, and responder-observed false positives.
  • •Own the detection lifecycle: design, query development, validation, peer review, documentation, deployment, tuning, monitoring, and retirement.
  • •Strengthen detection-as-code workflows, including test data, quality checks, metadata, rollout safety, coverage tracking, and detection health reporting.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,000 - 310,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in detection engineering, security engineering, threat hunting, incident response, SOC engineering, or information security monitoring.
  • •Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • •Hands-on experience building and tuning detections in a major SIEM or security analytics platform.
  • •Strong query and scripting skills, especially SPL, KQL, SQL, Python, or similar languages for analyzing security telemetry.
  • •Ability to move from raw logs to production-ready detections, including field semantics, thresholds, joins, baselines, and false positive handling.
Experience:8+ yearsCybersecurityDetection engineeringThreat huntingIncident responseSOCSecurity analytics
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering
Skills:CommunicationSound judgment
Tech Stack:SplunkMicrosoft SentinelMicrosoft DefenderCrowdStrikeSPLKQLSQLPythonGitCI/CDKubernetesCloud-native logsIdentity telemetryEndpoint dataSaaS platformsDeveloper systems

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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