CoreWeave
Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineer
$134K–$179K
New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA
Manhattan, New York, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Requires eligibility to access export-controlled information: U.S. person status, eligibility to access without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining authorization. CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Develops and improves security detections, hunts for threats, and responds to incidents across CoreWeave’s cloud environment.
What you'll do
- Build custom threat-detection logic and capabilities; conduct proactive threat hunting.
- Participate in incident response, containment, and remediation, including on-call coverage outside business hours.
- Collaborate on security architecture, controls, assessments, and detection effectiveness.
What they ask for
- Proven ability to deliver impactful projects across multiple technical domains and teams.
- Extensive experience creating custom alert logic; proficiency in at least one query language and writing detections in multiple languages.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes fundamentals; experience working with Purple and Red Teams.
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain, Linux or macOS internals and event sources, and the Incident Response Lifecycle.
Nice to have
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes-specific detection and security challenges.
- Open-source security contributions or detection-tooling development; experience applying advanced analytics or machine learning to detection engineering.
Pay
$134,000 to $179,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
KQL, SQL, Splunk Query Language, HiveQL, Kubernetes, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Python
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