CoreWeave

Staff Security Engineer, Detection Engineering

CoreWeave
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2 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$207k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and empower a team of detection engineers while establishing strong engineering practices.
  • Define long-term detection strategy, technical architecture, standards, and operational practices at large scale.
  • Design and build automated Detection-as-Code pipelines, detection logic, CI/CD testing frameworks, and coverage validation systems.
  • Develop scalable log ingestion pipelines and security data lake infrastructure for multi-cloud and Kubernetes telemetry.
  • Integrate AI/LLM-driven analytics and automated triage workflows for threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and incident response.
  • Identify root-cause vulnerabilities, automate incident response playbooks, and eliminate recurring security risks.
  • Drive cross-functional technical strategy, post-incident reviews, and organizational alignment on detection engineering.
  • Participate in on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays, and respond to active incidents outside normal business hours.

Requirements

  • Proven Staff-level or Technical Lead experience guiding engineering teams and defining multi-year detection strategies.
  • Demonstrated experience implementing Detection-as-Code, automated CI/CD security pipelines, and detection engineering frameworks.
  • Extensive experience designing and using security data lakes and distributed log ingestion pipelines in high-throughput cloud environments.
  • Deep expertise in Linux internals, Kubernetes runtime security, eBPF, Falco, and cloud-native container security.
  • Proficiency with software development and query languages including Python, Go, SQL, and KQL.
  • Strong leadership and mentoring skills, including experience supporting junior and mid-level engineers.
  • Preferred: experience applying AI, machine learning, or LLMs to detection engineering, threat intelligence, or automated incident triage.
  • Preferred: active open-source security contributions or public technical research in threat detection, Kubernetes security, or cloud defense.
  • Preferred: leadership or team lead experience in high-growth cloud or AI hyperscaler environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $207,000 to $275,000, plus discretionary bonus and equity awards.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for US-based full-time employees.
  • Company-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, FSA, and HSA.
  • Tuition reimbursement and eligibility to participate in the employee stock purchase program.
  • Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health and family-forming support through Carrot.
  • Paid parental leave and flexible, full-service childcare support through Kinside.
  • 401(k) with employer match and flexible PTO.
  • Catered lunch at office and data center locations, a casual work environment, and an innovation-focused culture.
  • On-call hours, including weekends and holidays, and participation in active incidents are expected.
CoreWeave

About CoreWeave

1,001-5,000 employees

CoreWeave provides a GPU-accelerated cloud for AI training and inference, VFX, and rendering, with bare-metal instances, Kubernetes orchestration, and managed services to scale workloads. It sells on-demand and reserved capacity to AI labs, startups, and enterprises, and offers SaaS tools and hands-on support for deployment. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV.

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