Senior Security Engineer - Detection Engineering
linuxcareersNew York, NY
$167,790 per yearAPPLY NOW
Senior Security Engineer - Detection Engineering
linuxcareersNew York, NY
yesterday
$167,790 per year
APPLY NOWAbout the role
Fastly is an edge cloud platform company that enables customers to create secure and reliable digital experiences at the edge of the Internet. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection Engineering team, you will build detections to identify malicious activity across Fastly's environment, develop AI-powered automations for incident response, and lead complex security investigations.
What You'll Do:
Develop detections and analytics to identify threats across cloud, container, corporate, and edge environments
Lead security investigations by analyzing complex log sources and telemetry to determine root cause
Build AI agents and automations to accelerate detection development, triage, and incident response workflows
Research, evaluate, implement, and maintain security tools including EDR, SOAR, and SIEM solutions
Conduct threat hunts to discover unknown malicious activity and participate in on-call rotations
What You NeedDirect experience integrating AI tools, LLMs, and automated agents into security operations workflows
Experience developing and tuning detections using detections-as-code with version control and CI/CD
Proven track record leading complex security incident investigations with expertise in log analysis and forensic artifact collection
Strong coding skills in Python or another general-purpose language for building automations
In-depth knowledge of AWS or GCP, Linux environments, containers like Kubernetes, and their native security tooling
Solid understanding of attacker tactics and techniques with threat hunting or threat modeling experience
Nice to Have:
Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDN), edge cloud platforms, or Fastly products and services
Experience designing and maintaining scalable ETL processes and data pipelines for ingesting and normalizing security telemetry
Experience deploying AI agents in production to detect threats, enrich alerts, and automate response
$167,790-$201,348 annually. Eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; family planning and mental health support; life, disability, and accident insurance; flexible vacation policy; up to 18 days accrued paid sick leave; 401(k) with company match; Employee Stock Purchase Program; 12 paid local holidays and 12 paid company wellness days.
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JOB OVERVIEW
Salary
$167,790 per year
Experience level
Senior
Location
New York, NY
Occupation
Information Security Engineers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
yesterday
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