Staff Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

Role description

Role Overview

As a Staff Detection & Response Engineer & Team Lead at CoreWeave, you will drive the strategic vision, technical architecture, and execution of our threat detection and response capabilities across cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

What You Will Do

You will operate as both a high-impact individual contributor and a technical leader, guiding a team of engineers to build scalable, automated, and resilient detection systems.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will lead, mentor, and empower a team of detection engineers, fostering technical excellence, continuous growth, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a Staff-level or Technical Lead capacity, guiding engineering teams and defining multi-year detection strategies.
• Demonstrated track record of implementing Detection-as-Code paradigms, automated CI/CD security pipelines, and detection engineering frameworks.
• Extensive experience designing, and utilizing security data lakes and distributed log ingestion pipelines for high-throughput cloud environments.
• Deep domain expertise in Linux internals, Kubernetes runtime security (eBPF, Falco), and cloud-native container security.
• Proficiency in software development and query languages (Python, Go, SQL, KQL, etc.) to build tooling and automated remediation engines.
• Strong leadership skills with a passion for mentoring junior/mid-level engineers and establishing strong engineering practices.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption
• 401(k) with a generous employer match