Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI‑powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Anduril's Information Security team is looking for a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to focus on building world class defensive controls to protect the infrastructure around our advanced defense technology products. This is a role with wide berth that will have the latitude to design and implement cutting edge security architecture.

• Collaborate with Counter Intelligence and Insider Threat teams to develop key signals and capabilities to identify nefarious activity
• Support internal tooling that surfaces detections to partner teams in real time, including API integrations, audit‑trail instrumentation, and data‑source health
• Collaborate with Counter Intelligence, Sec Ops, Insider Threat and other key stakeholders to architect and implement detection and response frameworks for Anduril’s products, assets, and other custom applications
• Build and optimize tailored detection signatures and response automation using detection‑as‑code principles
• Lead threat modeling scenarios with cross‑functional partners to understand weaknesses across OT, Cloud, Network, Endpoints, and other key worlds incorporating findings into security controls and/or detection signatures
• Lead large‑scale baselines of data, collaborating across many teams to emit signals to incorporate into detections, new telemetry ingestion, and/or security controls
• Contribute directly to the development and advancement of our detection‑as‑code, data engineering, automation, and infrastructure capabilities
• Design and tune User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) capabilities — including baselining, anomaly detection, and risk scoring — to surface insider threat and counterintelligence signals across identity, endpoint, and data‑access telemetry
• Work cross‑collaboratively with different teams to mature the detection and response of threat actors in key worlds, developing data baselines, automation, and engineering capabilities to scale this capability across the business

• Experience programming in one or more general purpose languages (Python, Go, Rust, SQL, etc.)
• Experience conducting data analysis in large‑scale data lake environments
• Experience working in a traditional software development lifecycle (i.e. Github, CI/CD, unit testing)
• Extensive experience utilizing AWS / Azure security controls and services
• Broad range of practical security knowledge across the spectrum of endpoint, network, identity, application, and cloud infrastructure
• Deep understanding of adversarial tradecraft with an emphasis on counterintelligence and insider threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

• Experience working directly with counterintelligence, insider threat, or special investigations teams in a cleared environment
• Experience deploying infrastructure using Kubernetes (EKS) and/or Docker containers (ECS)
• Experience proactively threat hunting using threat and counter intelligence signals to identify potential risks and weaknesses in telemetry

US Salary Range: $166,000 - $220,000 USD

Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including health and other benefits at little to no cost.

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.