Detection Engineering & Response Lead

About the role

The Detection Engineering & Response Lead will build and manage the company's D&R capability from the ground up. This role involves leading detection development, threat intelligence, and incident response functions while managing a growing team of analysts and engineers. The lead will architect detection coverage across cloud and bare-metal environments and shape the overall D&R strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead detection development to achieve full MITRE coverage and maintain low false-positive rates.
• Architect and operate detection coverage across cloud and bare-metal environments.
• Build and extend internal D&R tools and pipelines, including log onboarding and automated response runbooks.
• Integrate threat intelligence into detection logic and IR playbooks.
• Lead incident response end-to-end, including scoping, containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with Compliance and Engineering teams to detect threats while meeting regulatory needs.
• Define and report on D&R metrics such as MTTD and MTTR.
• Build and maintain the Security Incident Response program, including processes, tools, and on-call rotations.

Required skills

• Cloud-native environments
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Detection engineering
• SIEM
• SQL
• SOAR
• Golang
• Temporal
• Threat intelligence
• MITRE ATT&CK
• Incident response
• Memory forensics
• Log analysis
• Network traffic analysis

Nice to have

• AI/ML
• GPU clusters
• eBPF
• Falco
• Tetragon
• Threat hunting

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response
• 1–2 years leading or mentoring a team

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity upside
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexible, remote-first culture

About the Company

Nebius is a full-stack AI cloud platform supporting developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment. Listed on Nasdaq, the company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America, and Israel.