Senior Detection and Response Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves building and evolving the capabilities that power Cerebras's detection and response program.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and optimization of detections, playbooks, and workflows.
- Lead investigations and coordinated response for complex security events, including on-call responsibilities.
- Own key areas of the detection and response program and provide technical leadership.
- Build automation and integrations to make investigation and response faster and more consistent.
- Build and maintain detection and response capabilities as code, setting standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
- Translate incident findings and attacker behavior into durable improvements, including the thoughtful application of AI-driven approaches.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL.
- Deep practical knowledge of detection and response across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments.
- Experience leading complex investigations and translating attacker behavior into durable detection and response improvements.
- Experience building and operating production security tooling and automation.
- Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, log analysis, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
Skills: detection and response, security telemetry pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Python, platform engineering
This role has been open 42 days — below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 76 | 6142 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 50 d (+30 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: detection and response, security telemetry pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Python, platform engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.