Senior Security Engineer (Detection Engineer)

Join CoreWeave as a Senior Security Engineer (Detection Engineer) and design cutting-edge detection strategies to proactively identify and mitigate cyber threats. Collaborate with talented peers in an innovative environment, enjoy autonomy and encouragement to innovate, and directly influence CoreWeave's security landscape. This role requires a proven ability to deliver impactful projects, competency in multiple programming languages, and a strong foundational knowledge of Linux or macOS internals.

• Design and implement advanced threat detection capabilities to proactively identify and mitigate cyber threats.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security visibility and detection effectiveness, and participate in strategic security initiatives.
• Conduct proactive threat-hunting exercises, lead and participate in real-time security incident response, and engage in security assessments.

• Proven ability to deliver impactful projects spanning multiple technical domains and teams
• Competency in writing detections in multiple languages (Python, Bash, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux or macOS internals and their relevant event sources (eBPF, Endpoint Security Framework)
• Experience collaborating closely with Purple and Red Teams, leveraging findings to enhance detection capabilities
• Proficiency in at least one query language (e.g., SQL, Splunk Query Language, HiveQL)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes fundamentals and enthusiasm to deepen your expertise
• Extensive experience crafting custom alert logic within industry-standard tooling, like KQL, SQL, etc
• Practical experience applying and contributing to the Incident Response Lifecycle methodology
• Solid understanding of modern TTP frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes-specific detection and security challenges
• Contributions to the open-source security community or experience developing detection tooling
• Experience leveraging advanced analytics or machine learning techniques in detection engineering
• This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency