OpenAI

Security Engineer, Detection and Response

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9 months ago
Remote, United States +3 moreSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$266k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across infrastructure, products, and research environments.
  • Engineer detection pipelines and tooling, including rule lifecycle management, quality measurement, tuning, and safe rollout processes.
  • Automate triage, enrichment, containment, investigations, and evidence capture to reduce operational toil.
  • Partner with Security teams and infrastructure owners to define telemetry, threat models, response playbooks, and system requirements.
  • Identify telemetry and control gaps across endpoints, identity, SaaS, cloud, and Kubernetes, and drive or implement fixes.
  • Evaluate emerging security concerns, including detection and response strategies for agents operating across infrastructure at scale.

Requirements

  • Hands-on threat detection and/or incident response experience, including building detections, conducting investigations, and improving operational playbooks.
  • Knowledge of modern adversary tradecraft and the ability to translate it into detection strategies and response actions.
  • Threat modeling experience and the ability to identify detection and response implications for new infrastructure or features.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments, including cluster telemetry and workload, node, control-plane, and networking risks.
  • Understanding of lower-level infrastructure and datacenter risks, including firmware/BMC surfaces, network segmentation and telemetry, and difficult-to-observe control paths.
  • Experience across major cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI, with the ability to design cloud-agnostic detection approaches.
  • Ability to build measurable, auditable, and safe automation for Detection & Response workflows, including agent-style workflows where appropriate.
  • Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort with scripting and using AI or agent tooling to accelerate investigations and automation.
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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