Security Engineer - Detection and Response

Responsibilities

• Identify detection opportunities, define clear telemetry requirements, and partner with the detection infrastructure squad and data owners to make the signals needed for detection and investigation available.
• Develop, test, tune, and maintain detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, email, and other security-relevant environments.
• Investigate and prioritize alerts, determine their security impact, and participate in incident containment and remediation.
• Build repeatable investigation workflows and playbooks for alert triage, evidence collection, decision-making, escalation, containment, and response.
• Improve proactive threat-identification and threat-hunting capabilities using internal telemetry and external threat intelligence.
• Create cutting-edge AI workflows for Detection and Response that enrich alerts, gather and analyze evidence, guide investigations, and automate repetitive response work while preserving appropriate human judgment and oversight.
• Measure detection effectiveness, identify coverage gaps, and tune detections to balance security value, fidelity, and analyst workload.
• Use SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and related security platforms to research threats, develop detections, investigate alerts, and validate security outcomes.
• Share knowledge, document decisions, and communicate security findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, detection engineering, or closely related work.
• You understand common threats affecting SaaS-oriented corporate and production environments.

Who You Are

You are curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.

You understand how analysts triage and investigate alerts and how detection quality affects their decisions and workload.

You know how to create and tune detections based on attacker behavior, available telemetry, and an expected investigation path.

You are experienced with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or comparable monitoring and response technologies.

You can write code or use an automation platform to analyze security telemetry, enrich alerts, build investigation workflows, and remove repetitive work. Experience with Python or a similar language is valuable.

You understand modern detection-as-code practices, including GitHub, peer review, CI/CD, testing, and safely managing production detection content.

You have experience working with at least one major cloud platform, such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.

You care about clear documentation, inclusive collaboration, and explaining security concepts to people with different backgrounds and levels of expertise.

You are excited to create and critically evaluate cutting-edge AI workflows for detection development, alert triage, security investigations, and response, while applying sound security judgment and appropriate human oversight.

Where You'll Be

This role is based in New York

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

The United States base range for this position is $132,948–$189,927 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.