CoreWeave
Senior Security Engineer, Detection Engineering
$165K–$242K
Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Feb 6, 2026
- Location
- Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Bellevue, WA
Livingston, New Jersey, United States
Manhattan, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must meet one of the stated export-control access criteria: be a U.S. person, be eligible to access the information without export authorization, or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required authorization. CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing.
About the job
Develops threat detection capabilities and custom detection logic, hunts for threats, and supports incident response and broader security initiatives.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement threat detections, including custom alert logic.
- Conduct threat hunting and participate in incident response, containment, and remediation.
- Collaborate across teams on security visibility, assessments, architecture, and controls.
What they ask for
- Deliver impactful projects across multiple technical domains and teams.
- Experience crafting custom alert logic and proficiency in at least one query language.
- Kubernetes fundamentals; collaboration with Purple and Red Teams; understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain.
- Write detections in multiple languages and have foundational knowledge of Linux or macOS internals and relevant event sources.
Nice to have
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes-specific detection and security challenges.
- Open-source security contributions or detection-tooling development; experience with advanced analytics or machine learning in detection engineering.
Pay
USD 165,000 to USD 242,000 base salary
Tools
KQL, SQL, Kubernetes, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Splunk Query Language, HiveQL, Python
AI focus
May use advanced analytics or machine learning techniques in detection engineering; this is listed as preferred experience.
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