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Senior Security Detection Engineer
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is writing and orchestrating behavioral threat detections, hunting for attack patterns across GitLab and its cloud environments, and closing the gaps you find using automation and agentic AI.
If you love writing threat detections, hunting for behavioral anomalies, and closing the gaps you find, this is a team that lives for that work. You will act as a detection architect, orchestrating agents across the full detection lifecycle and turning threat insights into real alerts that protect GitLab, its cloud environments, and its customers. It is remote, rigorous, and built around automation and AI as genuine productivity multipliers, with sharp peers in incident response, red team, and threat intelligence to learn from.
Needs
- pattern finding
- building detections
- automating toil
- deep threat hunting
- root cause analysis
Rewards
- cross team purple teaming
- incident response
- catching real threats
- visible customer impact
Demands
- constant collaboration
- deep technical focus
- high stakes security
Grows
- detections as code
- behavior analytics
- agentic ai pipelines
- integrating systems
Values
- rigour and quality
- craftsmanship
- remote working
- learning culture
Drains
- maintaining detection library
- compliance overhead
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