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Senior Security Engineer - Detection & Response

DenverFull-time$141k–$212k2026-11-08
No visa sponsorship

Core

Senior Security Engineer building detections, triaging alerts, leading investigations, and automating response workflows for enterprise, cloud, and product environments.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (detection & response)

Builds

Detections-as-code, security tooling, and automated response pipelines

Domain

Cybersecurity, cloud security, incident response

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Detections-as-code, SIEM, cloud security, incident response, digital forensics, SQL, Python/Go, CI/CD, threat hunting

Preferred skills

AI-first security systems, large-scale data pipelines

Technologies

SIEM, cloud platforms, data lake, Splunk, Git/GitHub

Responsibilities

Develop and deploy rule-based and anomaly-based detections, respond to cyber threats, perform digital forensic investigations, automate detection workflows, conduct threat hunts, maintain D&R pipelines, mentor team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC