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Detection Engineer

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-06-08 → 2026-07-31

Core

Building reliable data pipelines and detection logic for a Security Operations Center (SOC) to feed a SIEM platform, enabling AI-assisted threat triage and automation.

Role type

Software Engineer (Security Operations / Detection Engineering)

Builds

Log ingestion pipelines, detection-as-code workflows, and agentic SOC automation scripts for threat detection.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Security Operations Center (SOC) / SIEM

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, API integration, unit testing, Git, problem-solving, cloud primitives (GCP/Azure/AWS), Docker

Preferred skills

SIEM exposure (Splunk, Sentinel), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), IAM principles, scheduled jobs

Technologies

Python, Poetry, Git, CI/CD, Docker, GCP/Azure/AWS, Terraform, Splunk, Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel

Responsibilities

Build and maintain log ingestion pipelines; Normalize and forward events; Build tests and fix bugs; Operate pipelines reliably; Support detection engineering with guidance; Help manage and improve detection-as-code pipeline; Participate in code review; Build with agentic coding tools; Contribute to agentic workflows; Validate changes on historical data; Assist in building and maintaining SOAR automations.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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