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Security Engineer - Detection and Response

Spotify

Remote · United States$11,079–15,827 gross/mofull-timeSpotify Careers

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.

Responsibilities

  • Identify detection opportunities, define clear telemetry requirements, and partner with the detection infrastructure squad and data owners to make the 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.

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    Work format
    Remote
    Seniority
    Mid
    Posted
    24 Sept 2026
    Last verified
    In the last 5 days

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