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Staff Detection Engineer

United States, San Francisco 165000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 19, 2026
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Crusoe Security & Compliance is hiring a Senior Detection Engineer to play a critical role in safeguarding Crusoe, our customers, and ensuring our security posture remains robust against emerging threats. This role involves leading the detection strategy, creation, tuning, validation, and correlation to maintain effective detections against an ever-changing threat landscape. The role is hands-on, encompassing the management of detection technologies and incident response.

Job Responsibility

  • Develop and execute a comprehensive security operations strategy that aligns with organizational goals
  • Evaluate and implement emerging security technologies and methodologies
  • Partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, SRE, IT, Legal)
  • Design, implement, and fine-tune advanced detection mechanisms
  • Continuously tune alerting rules to reduce false positives and enhance our signal-to-noise ratio
  • Perform forensics and lead response efforts during security incidents
  • Drive the advancement and growth of detection and automation initiatives
  • Manage security event monitoring, management, response workflows, and tasks
  • Improve security operations by developing measurement capabilities and metrics
  • Author comprehensive runbooks, write automation scripts, and build SOAR capabilities
  • Create, maintain, and manage a library of automated playbooks
  • Develop standard operating procedures and other appropriate documentation
  • Support ongoing security compliance, audit, and certification programs (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2)

Requirements

  • Minimum of 6+ years in cybersecurity, with a focus on detection and response
  • Technical proficiency with protection of on-premise computing environments and proficiency with one or more major cloud computing environments
  • Strong expertise in incident handling and forensic investigation
  • Strong knowledge of the cyber threat landscape and ability to articulate and incorporate understanding of major threat categories, motivations, and intent of adversaries
  • Automation-first mindset and demonstrated expertise in mentoring and training peers in security engineering skill sets
  • Experience in at least one programming language (Python, Go, C, C++) or deep expertise using low-code automation tools or SOAR platforms
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to engage with partners and stakeholders from various perspectives and technical understanding
  • Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform
  • Experience building and scaling open source security observability solutions
  • Experience with Unix/Linux environments
  • Self-motivated, with good communication and writing skills
  • Must be able to pass a background check
  • Embody the Company values

What we offer

  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
  • Employer contributions to HSA accounts
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Teladoc
  • 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Subscription to the Calm app
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company paid commuter benefit
  • $300 per month

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