Senior Detection and Response Engineer

About the role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and partners with model labs, enterprises and AI-native startups. It is seeking a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to build and evolve its detection and response program: creating reliable detections, leading complex investigations and coordinated response, and developing systems and automation that make security operations faster and more consistent.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and optimization of detections, playbooks and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents.
• Lead investigations and coordinated response for complex security events, including on-call responsibilities.
• Own key areas of the detection and response program and provide technical leadership to broader team initiatives.
• Build automation and integrations that reduce toil and make investigation and response faster and more consistent.
• Build and maintain detection and response capabilities as code, setting standards for testing, deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Translate incident findings and attacker behavior into durable improvements, including the thoughtful application of AI-driven approaches.
• Maintain clear runbooks and technical documentation, and mentor other engineers in detection and response practices.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response or security engineering, with demonstrated ownership of complex technical initiatives.
• Experience leading complex investigations and turning attacker behavior into durable detection and response improvements.
• Experience building and operating production security tooling and automation, with strong fundamentals in reliability and data quality.
• Excellent written communication skills, able to set technical direction, create clear documentation and mentor engineers.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL, writing clean, maintainable and testable code.
• Deep practical knowledge of detection and response across cloud, identity and endpoint environments.
• Fundamentals in operating systems, networking, log analysis and troubleshooting distributed systems.