Detection and Response Platform Engineer
Job in
Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, 94087, USA
Listed on 2026-09-05
Listing for:
Jobtailor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-05
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Own and evolve core infrastructure powering detection and response workflows at scale
- Design and maintain security telemetry pipelines, including collection, normalization, enrichment, and retention of logs and events
- Own and evolve the execution environment and tooling for detections and response automation
- Manage dependencies and configuration, release processes, and runtime health monitoring
- Automate investigation and response workflows through integrations across security tools
- Establish engineering standards including clear interfaces, automated tests, code review, and extensible documentation
- Own platform operational health through metrics, alerting, and reliability-focused on-call responsibilities
- Explore emerging approaches, potentially leveraging AI, to reduce toil and strengthen security posture
- Maintain operational playbooks and procedures for platform health, diagnosis, and recovery
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform/SRE, software engineering, or security engineering with a strong infrastructure focus
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code for production systems
- Hands-on experience operating production systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with IAM, networking, and logging/auditing
- Experience building and operating event/log pipelines and data workflows, streaming and/or batch
- Strong fundamentals in reliability and data quality
- Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation, such as Terraform/Pulumi and CI/CD
- Practical knowledge of detection and response concepts across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments
- Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Excellent written communication skills
- Ability to create clear documentation and runbooks
Demonstrates expertise in cloud infrastructure and security engineering, with a strong focus on building and maintaining scalable detection and response workflows. Proficient in automation, operational health management, and the development of engineering standards for production systems.
Highest-signal resume keywords- Cloud Infrastructure Experience
- Python Proficiency
- Event/Log Pipeline Management
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi)
- Production Systems Operations
- Python
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Event/Log Pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- IAM
- Networking
- Logging/Auditing
- Reliability Fundamentals
- Troubleshooting Distributed Systems
- Excellent Written Communication
- Documentation Skills
- Security Telemetry
- Detection and Response
- Operational Health
- Automation
- Monitoring
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Pulumi
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