Staff Security Engineer, Detection Engineering (AI)

Location: Bellevue, WA, United States. This is an onsite full-time role with on-call participation, including weekends and holidays, and active involvement during incidents.

Base salary: $207,000–$275,000 per year, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, tools, and services for building and scaling AI workloads.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and empower detection engineers while setting technical standards and long-term detection strategy.
• Design and build resilient Detection-as-Code pipelines with high-fidelity detection logic, CI/CD testing, and continuous coverage validation.
• Develop scalable log ingestion pipelines and security data lake infrastructure for multi-cloud and Kubernetes telemetry at petabyte scale.
• Integrate AI and LLM-driven analytics, threat intelligence workflows, anomaly detection, and automated incident triage.
• Identify root-cause vulnerabilities, automate incident response playbooks, and reduce recurring security risks with infrastructure and product teams.
• Drive technical leadership across teams, post-incident reviews, and communication of detection strategy to leadership.

Requirements

• Staff-level or Technical Lead experience guiding engineering teams and defining multi-year detection strategies.
• Experience implementing Detection-as-Code paradigms, automated CI/CD security pipelines, and detection engineering frameworks.
• Extensive experience designing and using security data lakes and distributed log ingestion pipelines for high-throughput cloud environments.
• Deep expertise in Linux internals, Kubernetes runtime security, eBPF, Falco, and cloud-native container security.
• Proficiency in software development and query languages including Python, Go, SQL, and KQL.
• Strong leadership skills, including mentoring junior and mid-level engineers and establishing engineering practices.
• Must meet applicable U.S. export-control access requirements: be a U.S. person, be eligible to access the information without authorization, or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience applying AI, machine learning, or LLMs to detection engineering, threat intelligence synthesis, or automated incident triage.
• Open-source security contributions or public technical research in threat detection, Kubernetes security, or cloud defense.
• Leadership or team lead experience in high-growth cloud or AI hyperscaler environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with U.S.-based medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, plus life and disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, tuition reimbursement, ESPP, mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, parental leave, and childcare support.
• 401(k) with employer match and flexible PTO.
• On-call work outside standard business hours, including weekends and holidays, is expected when incidents require it.
• Office and data center benefits include catered lunch and a casual work environment focused on innovative disruption.

Hiring process

• Interview and compensation decisions consider qualifications, experience, interview performance, and market location.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process for qualified applicants with disabilities.