Security Engineer - Detection and Response

Role Overview

Security engineers at Spotify protect our platform, employees, creators, and more than 700 million users. We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join the Detection and Response organization and help identify, investigate, and respond to threats across Spotify's environment.

You will work within our detection engineering squad where the team owns alert triage, security investigations, threat hunting, and the detection engineering lifecycle. You will turn threat intelligence, incident learnings, and analyst feedback into effective detections and investigation workflows, partnering closely with the detection infrastructure squad.

What You'll Do

• Identify detection opportunities, define clear telemetry requirements, and partner with the detection infrastructure squad and data owners to make signals needed for detection and investigation available.
• Develop, test, tune, and maintain detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, email, and other security-relevant environments.
• Investigate and prioritize alerts, determine their security impact, and participate in incident containment and remediation.
• Build repeatable investigation workflows and playbooks for alert triage, evidence collection, decision-making, escalation, containment, and response.
• Improve proactive threat-identification and threat-hunting capabilities using internal telemetry and external threat intelligence.
• Create cutting-edge AI workflows for Detection and Response that enrich alerts, gather and analyze evidence, guide investigations, and automate repetitive response work while preserving appropriate human judgment and oversight.
• Measure detection effectiveness, identify coverage gaps, and tune detections to balance security value, fidelity, and analyst workload.
• Use SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and related security platforms to research threats, develop detections, investigate alerts, and validate security outcomes.
• Share knowledge, document decisions, and communicate security findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Who You Are

• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable making progress in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, detection engineering, or closely related work.
• Understand how analysts triage and investigate alerts and how detection quality affects their decisions and workload.
• Know how to create and tune detections based on attacker behavior, available telemetry, and an expected investigation path.
• Experienced with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or comparable monitoring and response technologies.
• Can write code or use an automation platform to analyze security telemetry, enrich alerts, build investigation workflows, and remove repetitive work (experience with Python or a similar language is valuable).
• Understand modern detection-as-code practices, including GitHub, peer review, CI/CD, testing, and safely managing production detection content.
• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform, such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure.
• Understand common threats affecting SaaS-oriented corporate and production environments.
• Care about clear documentation, inclusive collaboration, and explaining security concepts to people with different backgrounds and levels of expertise.
• Excited to create and critically evaluate cutting-edge AI workflows for detection development, alert triage, security investigations, and response.