Detection Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote in Canada, including British Columbia, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta, or Manitoba. This is Canadian-based employment, and employees must maintain legal entitlement to work in Canada.

Salary: CAD 105,000–145,000 per year, plus variable/incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.

Company

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity company developing an AI-native platform for protecting organizations and processing large-scale security data.

What you will do

• Research threats and hunt for emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures to build intelligence-driven detections.
• Develop, test, review, and deploy high-fidelity CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM detection rules for managed detection and response.
• Use CI/CD practices to deploy detections as code and contribute to AI-powered detection engineering, LLM-assisted tooling, and coding agents.
• Collaborate with SIEM architects on data parsing and normalization into a common event schema.
• Build utilities, maintain documentation, improve triage efficiency, and support managed services at scale.
• Participate in the Detection Engineer handler on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a detection engineer, security engineer, security analyst, threat intelligence analyst, or in a related field.
• Knowledge of current cyber threats and detection using SIEM and related technologies.
• Experience analyzing large datasets across multiple vendors and technologies.
• Experience with SIEM solutions such as LogScale, Splunk, SumoLogic, Sentinel, QRadar, or LogRhythm.
• Relevant industry certifications such as GCFA, GCDA, or GCIH.
• Python or other scripting experience is strongly preferred.
• Curious, self-motivated approach and a high standard of work.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with large language models and AI coding agents.
• Hands-on experience integrating or building LLM-assisted workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexibility and autonomy.
• Market-leading compensation, equity awards, and comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation, holidays, and paid parental and adoption leave.
• Professional development opportunities for employees at every level and role.
• Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
• Employment is subject to background checks, including criminal record, credit, and/or reference checks.